Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Badminton News

At $350K DAIHATSU Indonesia Masters 2019, Jakarta (HSBC BWF World Tour Super 500)

[Q1] Subhankar Dey (IND,49) bt Gatjra Piliang Fiqihila Cupu (INA,160) 21-18 21-18
[Q2] Subhankar Dey (IND,49) bt Daniel Fan (AUS,180) 21-11 21-15

[R1] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,42) l (7) Anthony Sinisuka Ginting (INA,7) 12-21 16-21
[R1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,22) l (4) Long Chen (CHN,5) 12-21 14-21
[R1] Subhankar Dey (IND,49) l (6) Viktor Axelsen (DEN,6) 14-21 21-19 15-21
[R1] (8) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,8) bt Wei Feng Chong (MAS,44) 21-12 21-8

[R1] (8) Saina Nehwal (IND,9) bt Dinar Dyah Ayustine (INA,50) 7-21 21-16 21-11
[R1] (2) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt Xuerui Li (CHN,26) 22-24 21-8 21-17

[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) bt Mads Pieler Kolding (DEN)/ Niclas Nohr (DEN) 14-21 21-19 21-15

[R1] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l (8) Jongkolphan Kititharakul (THA)/ Rawinda Prajongjai (THA) 14-21 14-21

[R1] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l (4) Tontowi Ahmad (INA)/ Liliyana Natsir (INA) 15-21 15-21

[R2] (8) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,8) vs Kenta Nishimoto (JPN,10)

[R2] (8) Saina Nehwal (IND,9) vs Fitriani Fitriani (INA,31)
[R2] (2) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) vs Gregoria Mariska Tunjung (INA,14)

[R2] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) vs (5) Kim Astrup (DEN)/ Anders Skaarup Rasmussen (DEN)

Sindhu scored a hard-fought win against the former WR #1 Xuerui Li ... In the first game, Sindhu missed a game point at 21-10 and Li converted the 3rd game point ... Sindhu dominated the second game and won it comfortably ... In the third game, Sindhu was behind 6-9 and then 10-13 but she caught with Li at 13-all ... And from 17-all she won next 4 points for an excellent win ... In the second round, she is facing the Indonesian Gregoria Mariska Tunjung.
Saina had a slow start against the Indonesian Ayustine ... Ayustine won the first game in no time but after that Saina dug deep and fought back ... She won the second game and kept momentum in the third to win it comfortably ... Another Indonesian girl is waiting for Saina in the next round, Fitriani Fitriani.
Srikanth scored a comfortable win over his Malaysian opponent, Wei Feng Chong ... Next, he is facing the top-10 Japanese, Kenta Nishimoto.

As expected tough matches for our men ... For Sai, he was no match to Long Chen in his comeback match ... After qualifying Shubankar tried and won the second game but Axelsen won the third game for a win ... Kashyap also failed to challenge the WR #7 Ginting.

In the doubles, only Manu and Sumeeth managed to win their first round match against the Danish pair ... Next, they r facing the seeded Danish pair ... Sikki-Ashwini and Sikki-Pranaav lost their respective matches.

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