Saturday, December 15, 2018

Badminton News

At $1.5M HSBC BWF World Tour Finals 2018, Guangzhou, China

Men's Singles
[SF] Sameer Verma (IND,14) l (3/4) Yuqi Shi (CHN,2) 21-12 20-22 17-21

Women's Singles
[SF] Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,6) bt Ratchanok Intanon (ThA,) 21-16 25-23

Sindhu enters her second final in the BWF World Tour Finals ... She defeated the Thai girl, Ratchanok Intanon, in straight games ... After winning the first game she faced resistance from Intanon ... Sindhu saved 3 game points before converting her 2nd match-point ... In the final, she is facing the Japanese challenge of Nozomi Okuhara.

But Sameer failed to match Sindhu's performance and lost against Chinese Yuqi Shi ... Sameer started well and won the first game comfortably ... In the second game, both players were matching each other, Sameer missed a match-point at 20-19 and Yuqi won next 3 points for winning this game ... In the third game, Yuqi took a control from 9-all and won it keeping the advantage ... Still, a good performance from Sameer to reach the semis in the BWF World Tour Finals.

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