Thursday, August 02, 2018

Badminton News

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

[R3] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,26) bt Hans-Kristian Solberg Vittinghus (DEN,23) 21-13 21-11
[R3] (5) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,6) l Daren Liew (MAS,38) 18-21 18-21

[R3] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt (9) Ji Hyun Sung (KOR,9) 21-10 21-18
[R3] (10) Saina Nehwal (IND,10) bt (4) Ratchanok Intanon (THA,4) 21-16 21-19

[R3] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt (7) Soon Huat Goh (MAS)/ Shevon Jemie Lai (MAS) 20-22 21-14 21-6

[QF] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,26) vs (6) Kento Mmomota (JPN,7)

[QF] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) vs (8) Nozomi Okuhara (JPN,6)
[QF] (10) Saina Nehwal (IND,10) vs (7) Carolina Marin (ESP,8)

[QF] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs (1) Siwei Zheng (CHN)/ Yaqiong Huang (CHN)

Sindhu scored a comfortable win over Korean Ji Hyun Sung and took a revenge of her loss at the Asian Championship in April ... Next, she is facing Nozomi Okuhara, so we can hope another long match between these two.

Sai scored an easy win over Hans-Kristian Solberg Vittinghus, this was his first win against Vittinghus after three losses ... Next, he is facing Japanese Kento Mmomota.

Saina again showed her upper hand over Ratchanok Intanon and scored straight sets win to enter into the quarters.

Srikanth again failed to overcome Daren Liew after 5 years and lost in straight games ... A big opportunity missed by Srikanth.

After losing the first game Satwik and Ashwini made an excellent comeback to score a win against WR #7 Malaysian pair, Soon Huat Goh and Shevon Jemie Lai ... This was a repeat performance of Commonwealth Games 2018 ... Next, they r having a really tough match against the top-seed Chinese pair for winning the medal.

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