Friday, June 29, 2018

Badminton News

At $700K Malaysia Open 2018, Kuala Lumpur (HSBC BWF World Tour Super 750)

[QF] (4) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,7) bt Brice Leverdez (FRA,22) 21-18 21-14

[QF] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt (6) Carolina Marin (ESP,6) 22-20 21-19

[SF] (4) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,7) vs Kento Momota (JPN,11)

[SF] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) vs (1) Tzu Ying Tai (TPE,1)

Sindhu scored a tight straight games win over former WR #1 Carolina Marin ... In the first game, Sindhu saved two game points from 18-20 down to win it ... In the second game, Sindhi took a lead in the middle of the game and kept that till the end of the match ... Next, she is having a lot tougher match against WR #1 Tzu Ying Tai ... Sindhu having poor win-loss record, 3-8, and she has lost last four matches against Tai.

Sri scored a comfortable win over Frenchman Leverdez ... Next, he is facing Japanese challenge of Kento Momota ... Sri having 3-5 win-loss record against him, but those all losses were before 2017.

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