Thursday, September 20, 2018

Badminton News

At $1M VICTOR China Open 2018, Changzhou (HSBC BWF World Tour Super 1000)

[R2] (7) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,8) bt Suppanyu Avihingsanon (THA,23) 21-12 15-21 24-22

[R2] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt Busanan Ongbamrungphan (THA,24) 21-23 21-13 21-18

[R2] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) l Hung Ling Chen (TPE)/ Chi-Lin Wang (TPE) 9-21 10-21

[R2] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l (1) Siwei Zheng (CHN)/ Yaqiong Huang (CHN) 14-21 11-21
[R2] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l (6) Mathias Christiansen (DEN)/ Christinna Pedersen (DEN) 16-21 10-21

[QF] (7) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,8) vs (3) Kento Momota (JPN,2)

[QF] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) vs (5) Yufei Chen (CHN,6)

Sindhu needed three games to win for entering in the quarters ... After losing the first game against her Thai opponent, she made a strong comeback for winning the second and kept the momentum to win the third ... Sindhu is facing Chinese Yufei Chen.
Srikanth enters into the quarters with hard-fought win over his Thai opponent Avihingsanon ... After winning the first game Srikanth lost focus and Avihingsanon took advantage for winning the second game comfortably ... In the third game, Srikanth took an early lead but he gave chance to Avihingsanon for a fight back ... Srikanth missed 3 match points from 20-17 and after that, he needed to save one at 20-21 ... Srikanth won next 3 points to complete the win ... Next, Srikanth having a tough match against in-form Kento Momota.

For Manu and Sumeeth, the top-10 Taipei pair proved too strong ... In MXD, Sikki and Prannav also failed to challenge their WR #5 Danish opponents ... Satwik and Ashwini also failed to challenge WR #1 Chinese pair in their second-round match.

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