Saturday, October 20, 2018

Badminton News

At $775K DANISA Denmark Open 2018, Odense (HSBC BWF World Tour Super 750)

[QF] (7) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,6) bt Sameer Verma (IND,23) 22-20 19-21 23-21

[QF] Saina Nehwal (IND,10) bt (8) Nozomi Okuhara (JPN,7) 17-21 21-16 21-12

[QF] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l (1) Yuki Fukushima (JPN)/ Sayaka Hirota (JPN) 14-21 12-21

[SF] (7) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,6) vs (2) Kento Momota (JPN,1)

[SF] Saina Nehwal (IND,10) vs Gregoria Mariska Tunjung (INA,19)

Saina is in the semis and facing Indonesian girl, Gregoria Mariska Tunjung ... In the quarters, she broke 3 matches losing streak against Nozomi Okuhara ... After losing the first game Saina made a strong comeback to win next two games.

Sameer and Srikanth played really long match of almost 80 mins and Srikanth managed to prevail ... In the first game, both players were exchanging the leads ... Srikanth took 18-15 lead but Sameer caught him at 20-all, Srikanth won next two points for winning the game ... In the second game, from 9-all Srikanth took lead and at one time, he was leading 16-11 ... Sameer fought back to lead 17-16 and won this game ... In the final game, from 5-all Sameer opened small lead and kept increasing to lead 17-13 ... This time Srikanth fought back and caught him at 18-all ... Sameer saved two match points at 20-19 and 21-20 but Srikanth converted the 3rd match point ... Next, he is having a tough match against in-form and WR #1 Kento Momota ... I doubt how much fight Srikanth can give him after this long match.

The WR #1 Japanese pair proved too strong for Ashwini and Sikki in their quarter-final match.

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