Wednesday, August 01, 2018

Badminton News

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

[R2] (11) Prannoy H. S. (IND,11) l Ygor Coelho (BRA,39) 21-8 16-21 15-21
[R2] Sameer Verma (IND,19) l (9) Lin Dan (CHN,9) 17-21 14-21
[R2] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,26) bt Luís Enrique Penalver (ESP,115) 21-18 21-11
[R2] (5) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,6) bt Pablo Abian (ESP,48) 21-15 12-21 21-14

[R2] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt Fitriani Fitriani (INA,41) 21-14 21-9

[R2] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) l (7) Takuto Inoue (JPN)/ Yuki Kaneko (JPN) 24-22 13-21 16-21
[R2] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) l (8) Kim Astrup (DEN)/ Anders Skaarup Rasmussen (DEN) 18-21 21-15 16-21

[R2] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l (2) Yuki Fukushima (JPN)/ Sayaka Hirota (JPN) 14-21 15-21

[R3] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,26) vs Hans-Kristian Solberg Vittinghus (DEN,23)
[R3] (5) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,6) vs Daren Liew (MAS,38)

[R3] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) vs (9) Ji Hyun Sung (KOR,9)

Sindhu scored a comfortable win over Fitriani ... Next, she is facing Korean Ji Hyun Sung, Sindhu lost against her in their last meeting at the Asian Championship in April.

Sai scored a comfortable win against his Spanish opponent ... He is facing Danish challenge of Hans-Kristian Solberg Vittinghus, Sai has losing record 0-3 against him.

Srikanth surprisingly stretched to three games by his Spanish opponent ... Next, he is facing Malaysian Daren Liew, interestingly they never faced each other in last 5 years and before that Liew won both matches which they played in 2012 and 2013.

Bad loss for Prannoy against lowly ranked Brazilian after winning the first game comfortably ... Sameer also failed to overcome the challenge of Lin Dan.

In the doubles, our all players lost but Satwik-Chirag and Manu-Sumeeth gave a decent fight to their top-10 opponents.

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