Thursday, October 25, 2018

Badminton News

At $750K YONEX French Open 2018, Paris, France (HSBC BWF World Tour Super 750)

[R2] (5) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,6) bt Dong Keun Lee (KOR,29) 12-21 21-16 21-18
[R2] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,26) l Jonatan Christie (INA,13) 16-21 14-21

[R2] Saina Nehwal (IND,11) bt (8) Nozomi Okuhara (JPN,7) 10-21 21-14 21-17
[R2] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt Sayaka Sato (JPN,17) 21-17 21-16

[R2] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) bt (3) Cheng Liu (CHN)/ Nan Zhang (CHN) 21-14 21-16
[R2] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) bt Jiting He (CHN)/ Qiang TAN (CHN) 21-13 21-19

[R2] Jakkampudi Meghana (IND)/ Poorvisha S Ram (IND) l (4) Greysia Polii (INA)/ Apriyani Rahayu (INA) 15-21 13-21

[QF] (5) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,6) vs (1) Kento Momota (JPN,1)

[QF] Saina Nehwal (IND,9) vs (1) Tzu Ying Tai (TPE,1)
[QF] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,2) vs (7) Bingjiao He (CHN,7)

[QF] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) vs Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND)

A good comeback win for Srikanth against the Korean, Dong Keun Lee ... Srikanth lost against him in their previous two meetings ... So here, after losing the first game he fought back to win the next two games ... In the quarters, he is again facing in-form WR #1 Kento Momota.
Sai failed to challenge Jonathan in his straight games loss.

Saina continued with her newfound upper hand against her Japanese opponents ... She scored another comeback win over Okuhara after losing the first game easily ... She is also again facing the WR #1 Tzu Ying Tai.
Sindhu scored straight games win over an experienced Japanese opponent, Sayaka Sato ... Next, she is facing a Chinese challenge of Bingjiao He.

What a day for the Indian doubles ... Our two pairs scored impressive wins over higher ranked Chinese pairs ... Manu and Sumeeth scored a huge win over the WR #5 Chinese pair, Liu and Zhang, in straight games ... Also, Satwik and Chirag defeated WR #16 Chinese pair in straight games to book the quarter-final match against fellow countrymen ... Our both pairs won their matches inside 40 minutes.
Meghana and Poorvisha lost in straight games against the 4th seeds Indonesian pair.

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