Friday, October 26, 2018

Badminton News

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

[QF] (5) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,6) l (1) Kento Momota (JPN,1) 16-21 19-21

[QF] Saina Nehwal (IND,9) l (1) Tzu Ying Tai (TPE,1) 20-22 11-21
[QF] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,2) l (7) Bingjiao He (CHN,7) 13-21 16-21

[QF] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) bt Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) 21-17 21-11

[SF] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) vs (1) Marcus Fernaldi Gideon (INA)/ Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo (INA)

Srikanth gave a decent fight to the in-form WR #1 Kento Momota, but lost in straight games.

Saina missed an opportunity against the WR #1 Tzu Ying Tai ... In the first game, Saina opened 12-6 lead which increased to 16-9, but from here Tai started fightback ... Tai reduced lead to 16-15 but still, Saina kept control and had a 4 game points at 20-16 ... Tai won next 6 points in a row for winning this game ... Saina never came out of these missed opportunity and Tai took advantage of it after winning the second game comfortably.

A disappointing loss for Sindhu against Bingjiao He ... Sindhu failed to raise her game against He.

Considering their current form and consistency I was expecting win for Manu and Sumeeth ... But Satwik and Chirag played an excellent match to complete win in straight games little over a half hour ... Next, they r facing the WR #1 Indonesian pair.

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