Thursday, March 07, 2019

Badminton News

At $1M YONEX All England Open Badminton Championships 2019, Birmingham, England (HSBC BWF World Tour Super 1000)

[R1] (7) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,8) bt Brice Leverdez (FRA,25) 21-13 21-11
[R1] Sameer Verma (IND,14) l (6) Viktor Axelsen (DEN,6) 21-16 18-21 14-21
[R1] B. Sai Praneeth (IND,26) bt HS Prannoy (IND, 16) 21-19 21-19

[R1] (8) Saina Nehwal (IND,9) bt Kisty Gilmour (SCO,29) 21-17 21-18
[R1] (5) PV Sindhu (IND,6) l Sung Ji Hyun (KOR,10) 16-21 22-20 18-21

[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) l Ou Xuanyi (CHN)/ Ren Xiangyu (CHN) 19-21 21-16 14-21
[R1] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l (7) Shiho Tanaka (JPN)/ Koharu Yonemoto (JPN) 21-16 26-28 16-21
[R1] Jakkampudi Meghana (IND)/ Poorvisha S Ram (IND) l Ekaterina Bolotova (RUS)/ Alina Davletova (RUS) 21-18 12-21 12-21

[R1] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l Chang Tak Ching (HKG)/ Ng Wing Yung (HKG) 21-23 17-21

[R2] (7) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,8) vs Jonatan Christie (INA,9)
[R2] B. Sai Praneeth (IND,26) vs Ng Ka Long Angus (HKG,15)

[R2] (8) Saina Nehwal (IND,9) vs Line HĂžjmark Kjaersfeldt (DEN,19)

Expected straight games victories for Srikanth and Saina ... Sai also won in straight games against Prannoy, who was making comeback from injury ... Next, Srikanth is facing a tricky match against Indonesian, Jonatan Christie ... Saina is facing the top-20 Danish girl, Kjaersfeldt ... And Sai is facing the top-15 Hong Kong player, Ng Ka Long Angus.

Sindhu lost in 80 mins long match against the former WR #2 Korean, Sung Ji Hyun ... Sindhu played a patchy match and Sung took advantage of errors from Sindhu ... After losing the first game, Sindhu managed to keep pace with Sung ... Sindhu saved 3 match points before winning this game ... In the third game, Sung outclassed Sindhu with her game and Sindhu's errors to take a huge lead ... She had 7 match points at 13-20 ... Sindhu saved 5 of them but Sung converted her 9th match point for a win.
Sameer had a tough match against the World champion Axelsen ... He started well and won the first game but afterward, Axelsen crawled back to win next two games.

In the doubles, our all pairs lost in the first round ... Ashwini-Sikki missed a big opportunity of beating the 7th seed Japanese pair ... After winning the first game they had a match point in the second, which they missed ... After winning the tight second game the Japanese pair controlled the third ... Manu and Summeth also lost in three games against their Chinese opponents ... Meghana and Poorvisha lost in three games against their Russian opponents ... In MXD, Sikki and Pranaav lost in straight games against the Hong Kong pair.

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