Friday, March 16, 2018

Badminton News

At $1M YONEX All England Open 2018, Birmingham, England (BWF World Tour Super 1000)

[QF] Prannoy H. S. (IND,16) l Yuxiang Huang (CHN,42) 22-20 16-21 21-23

[QF] (4) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt (7) Nozomi Okuhara (JPN,6) 20-22 21-18 21-18

[SF] (4) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) vs (2) Akane Yamaguchi (JPN,2)

Sindhu is in the semis with another memorable match against Okuhara ... After losing the first game Sindhu was down 16-18 in the second ... But Sindhu won next 5 points for winning the game ... In the third game, Sindhu was down 12-16 but she again showed her fighting spirit and won 9 points from next 11 points and completed the win ... Next, Sindhu is playing top Japanese girl, Akane Yamaguchi.

Prannoy also missed a huge opportunity of entering the semis of All England Open ... He lost in three games against Huang after winning the first game ... In the third game, Prannoy took an early control of the game, 10-3 ... Huang was reducing the lead but Prannoy was leading until 19-17 ... After that Huang put pressure on Prannoy and converted the 3rd match point.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Prannoy really choked in the Semis which seems to be becoming an unwanted trend in Indian Badminton where our players seem to come extremely close to winning in Big matches & just missing out in the end. It is high time that the services of a sports psychologist should be considered by BAI & the chief coach Gopichand so that these close matches are converted into victory & our players are more often on the right side in terms of result in such nail biters than the other way round!

Anonymous said...

Oh no! -The story gets repeated with Sindhu in the semis as well. It cannot be a co-incidence every time. Though victory & defeat are 2 sides of the same coin, the frequency with which it is happening in big matches is too hard to swallow! With the talent Sindhu has, she should be winning prestigious tournaments like All England etc rather than ending up as a Semi Finalist or runner up. I sincerely hope sports psychologist services should be hired at the earliest across all Olympic Sporting disciplines!

Jay said...

Good point of using services of sports psychologist, but I feel, Gopi is right person to take a call on that ... Also here our players struggled a lot on new service rule.

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