Badminton News

At TOTAL BWF World Championships 2018, Nanjing, China (Grade 1 - Individual Tournaments)

[R1] (5) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,6) bt Nhat Nguyen (IRL,87) 21-15 21-16

[R2] (10) Saina Nehwal (IND,10) bt Aliye Demirbag (TUR,72) 21-17 21-8

[R2] (5) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,6) vs Pablo Abian (ESP,48)

[R3] (10) Saina Nehwal (IND,10) vs (4) Ratchanok Intanon (THA,4)

[R1] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) bt Marcus Ellis (ENG)/ Chris Langridge (ENG) 21-19 12-21 21-19
[R1] Arjun M.R. (IND)/ Ramchandran Shlok (IND) l Yew Sin Ong (MAS)/ Ee Yi Teo (MAS) 14-21 15-21
[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Saurabh Sharma (IND) l Chin Chung Or (HKG)/ Chun Man Tang (HKG) 20-22 21-18 17-21

[R1] Jakkampudi Meghana (IND)/ Poorvisha S Ram (IND) l Debora Jille (NED)/ Imke Van Der Aar (NED) 15-21 21-19 18-21
[R1] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) bt Kai Hsin Chiang (TPE)/ Shih Han Hung (TPE) 19-21 21-10 21-17
[R1] Kuhoo Garg (IND)/ Ningshi Block Hazarika (IND) l Ching Hui Chang (TPE)/ Ching Tun Yang (TPE) 19-21 11-21

[R2] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l (12) Hafiz Faizal (INA)/ Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja (INA) 16-21 4-21
[R2] Saurabh Sharma (IND)/ Anoushka Parikh (IND) l (8) Peng Soon Chan (MAS)/ Liu Ying Goh (MAS) 18-21 11-21
[R2] Rohan Kappor (IND)/ Kuhoo Garg (IND) l (6) Chris Adcock (ENG)/ Gabrielle Adcock (ENG) 12-21 12-21
[R2] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt (15) Mark Lamsfuss (GER)/ Isabel Herttrich (GER) 10-21 21-17 21-18

[R2] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) vs (8) Kim Astrup (DEN)/ Anders Skaarup Rasmussen (DEN)

[R2] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) vs (2) Yuki Fukushima (JPN)/ Sayaka Hirota (JPN)

[R3] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs (7) Soon Huat Goh (MAS)/ Shevon Jemie Lai (MAS)

Expected comfortable wins for Srikanth and Saina in their respective matches .. Saina is facing Ratchanok Intanon in the pre-quarter-final and Srikanth is facing Pablo Abian in the second round.
After yesterday's terrific start our MXD pairs struggled against seeded pairs ... Only Satwik and Ashwini continue with their superb run ... They defeated WR #15 German pair in a comeback win for entering into the third round ... Next, they r facing WR #7 Malaysian pair, Soon Huat Goh and Shevon Jemie Lai, who they defeated in Commonwealth Games.
In the doubles, Satwik-Chirag scored an excellent win over higher ranked British pair, they r having a tough secound round against WR #8 Danish pair ... Ashwini and Sikki also started with a win, they fought back after losing the first game against Taipei pair ... Next, they r facing WR #2 Japanese pair.