Thursday, November 15, 2018

Badminton News

At $400K YONEX-SUNRISE Hong Kong Open 2018, Kowloon (HSBC BWF World Tour Super 500)

[R2] (4) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,9) bt Prannoy H. S. (IND,23) 8-21 30-29 21-18
[R2] Sameer Verma (IND,17) bt (5) Chen Long (CHN,5) w/o

[R2] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) l Ji Hyun Sung (KOR,10) 24-26 20-22

[R2] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) l Jhe-Huei Lee (TPE)/ Yang Lee (TPE) 16-21 15-21

[R2] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Yang Lee (TPE)/ Ya Ching Hsu (TPE) 17-21 11-21

[QF] (4) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,8) vs (8) Kenta Nishimoto (JPN,11)
[QF] Sameer Verma (IND,18) vs Cheuk Yiu Lee (HKG,47)

Srikanth scored a hard-fought win over Prannoy in three games ... After losing the first game Srikanth faced a tough challenge from Prannoy in the second ... Both players were neck to neck throughout the game ... Srikanth saved the three match-points and converted the 7th game point for winning the game in extra points ... In the third game, Srikanth took an early lead 11-4 and 16-12, but Prannoy caught him at 16-all ... Srikanth kept his cool and regained couple of points lead and maintained for an exciting win ... Next, he is facing the Japanese challenge of .Kenta Nishimoto

Sameer enters into the quarters as his opponent the former WR #1 Chen Long gave a walkover ... Next, Sameer is facing Hong Kong's Cheuk Yiu Lee.

A disappointed loss for Sindhu against the former WR #2 Korean, Ji Hyun Sung in two games ... In both games, Sung took an early lead and Sindhu caught up ... In the first game, Sindhu missed a game point and Sung converted the fifth one ... In the second game, Sindhu saved two match points but Sung converted the third match point.

In the doubles, Manu and Sumeeth lost in straight games against Taipei pair.
In MXD, Satwik and Ashwini lost in straight games against Taipei pair.

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