Badminton News

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

[QF] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,26) l (6) Kento Momota (JPN,7) 12 12-21

[QF] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt (8) Nozomi Okuhara (JPN,6) 21-17 21-19
[QF] (10) Saina Nehwal (IND,10) l (7) Carolina Marin (ESP,8) 6-21 11-21

[QF] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l (1) Siwei Zheng (CHN)/ Yaqiong Huang (CHN) 17-21 11-21

[SF] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt (2) Akane Yamaguchi (JPN,2) 21-17 21-19

Sindhu secure another medal in World Championship with straight games win over Nozomi Okuhara ... I was expecting a long match, though this was a long match but despite slow starts in both games Sindhu recovered for winning it ... In the first game, Sindhu was down 2-6 and then 5-8, but from 10-all Sindhu took a lead and kept that for winning the game ... In the second game, she was again down 0-5 and then 3-9 ... This time also Sindhu fought back to catch Okhuhara at 11-all ... After that both players were neck to neck till 19-all and from here Sindhu won next two points for completing a win in an almost hour ... Next, she is facing WR #2 another Japanese girl, Akane Yamaguchi.

The in-form Kento Momota proved too strong for Sai in this match.

A shocking one-sided loss to Saina against Carolina Marin in 30 mins ... Saina managed to win only 17 points, may be one of bad day for Saina.

Satwik and Ashwini gave a decent fight in the first game to the top-seed Chinese pair ... In the second game, Chinese pair was all over them ... Still, really good outing for our pair in this World Cup to reach the quarter-final.