Thursday, December 13, 2018

Badminton News

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

MS - Group B
[M2] Sameer Verma (IND,14) bt Tommy Sugiarto (INA,10) 21-16 21-7

WS - Group A
[M2] Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,6) bt (1) Tzu Ying Tai (TPE,1) 14-21 21-16 21-18

Sameer scored an excellent dominating win over Indonesian Tommy Sugiarto ... Sameer took full advantage of a slower court against Sugiarto.

Sindhu scored a superb comeback win over the regaining WR #1 Tzu Ying Tai ... After losing the first game easily Sindhu made a strong comeback in the match to win the second ... In the third game, Tai took an early lead and was leading till 8-12 ... Sindhu won 7 points in a row from 11-13 to gran 18-13 lead ... Tai saved two match points from 20-16 but Sindhu converted the 3rd match point ... This was Sindhu's first win against Tai after six consecutive losses ... Her last win was in the Olympic on the 15th August 2016 ... Also with this win, Sindhu has secured her place in the semis.

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