Badminton News

At $1.25M BLIBLI Indonesia Open 2018, Jakarta (HSBC BWF World Tour Super 1000)

[R1] Sameer Verma (IND,18) bt Rasmus Gemke (DEN,28) 21-9 12-21 22-20
[R1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,20) l Tzu Wei Wang (TPE,15) 10-21 13-21
[R1] (8) Prannoy H. S. (IND,13) bt Lin Dan (CHN,8) 21-15 9-21 21-14
[R1] (4) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,7) l Kento Momota (JPN,11) 21-12 14-21 15-21

[R1] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt Pornpawee Chochuwong (THA,24) 21-15 19-21 21-13
[R1] Saina Nehwal (IND,10) bt Dinar Dyah Ayustine (INA,48) 21-12 21-12
[R1] Vaishnavi Reddy Jakka (IND,55) l Line Højmark Kjaersfeldt (DEN,25) 12-21 10-21

[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) l (3) Cheng Liu (CHN)/ Nan Zhang (CHN) 21-15 15-21 17-21
[R1] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) l Hiroyuki Endo (JPN)/ Yuta Watananbe (JPN) 8-21 15-21
[R1] Jakkampudi Meghana (IND)/ Poorvisha S Ram (IND) l Agatha Imanuela (INA)/ Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti (INA) 11-21 18-21

[R1] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l (4) Siwei Zheng (CHN)/ Yaqiong Huang (CHN) 12-21 14-21

[R2] Sameer Verma (IND,18) vs (1) Viktor Axelsen (DEN,1)
[R2] (8) Prannoy H. S. (IND,13) vs Tzu Wei Wang (TPE,15)

[R2] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) vs Aya Ohori (JPN,16)
[R2] Saina Nehwal (IND,10) vs (5) Yufei Chen (CHN,5)

Prannoy scored three games win over legendary Lin Dan ... After winning the first game Prannoy lost the second easily, but in the third Prannoy took early control and opened 12-7 lead ... He kept that advantage and won this game comfortably ... In the second round, he is facing Tzu Wei Wang, who defeated Sai comfortably.
Sameer also started with three games win over Gemke ... After winning the first game easily Sameer lost the second cheaply ... In the third, Sameer took a 6-1 lead and then he was leading 16-10 and 18-14 ... Gemke caught with him at 18-all, Gemke saved 2 match points from 20-18 but Sameer converted the 3rd match point for the win ... Next, he is facing WR #1 Danish player, Viktor Axelsen.
Saina started with a dominating win over a local lower ranked opponent ... Next, she is having Chinese challenge of WR#5 Yufei Chen, at the beginning of 2018 Saina had a win over her.
Surprisingly Sindhu needed three games to win over Thai girl Chochuwong ... Next, she is facing Japanese girl, Aya Ohori.

Sri had a tough match against Kento Momota, with whom he lost easily in last week's Malaysian open ... Here, he started well after winning the first game, but after that, he failed to keep momentum and Momota won next two games comfortably ... The top-25 Danish girl proved too strong to Vaishnavi.

In the doubles, Manu and Sumeeth gave a fighting performance against WR #2 Chinese pair ... They took the first game but Chinese pair fought back for winning next two ... Satwik and Chirag had a bad loss against lower ranked Japanese pair ... Meghana and Poorvisha also lost against lower ranked Indonesian opponents.