Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Badminton News

At $150K YONEX Swiss Open 2019, Basel, Switzerland (HSBC BWF World Tour Super 300)

[R1] Subhankar Dey (IND,47) bt Lucas Claerbout (FRA,97) 21-19 21-17
[R1] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,50) bt Felix Burestedt (SWE,87) 21-19 21-17
[R1] (8) Sameer Verma (IND,14) bt Ajay Jayaram (IND,55) 21-18 21-15
[R1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,22) bt Rajiv Ouseph (ENG,30) 11-5 retd.

[R1] Vaishnavi Reddy Jakka (IND,63) l Kristin Kuuba (EST,71) 12-21 23-21 9-21
[R1] Vrushali Gummadi (IND,107) l (6) Michelle Li (CAN,13) 14-21 11-21
[R1] (Q) Riya Mookerjee (IND,110) bt Linda Zetchiri (BUL,62) 21-23 21-15 21-8

[R2] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) l David Daugaard (DEN)/ Frederik Sogaard (DEN) 21-18 17-21 10-21
[R1] Arjun M.R. (IND)/ Ramchandran Shlok (IND) l Mark Lamsfuss (GER)/ Marvin Seidel (GER) 18-21 20-22
[R1] Arun George (IND)/ Sanyam Shukla (IND) bt Ching Yao Lu (TPE)/ Po Han Yang (TPE) 21-16 21-9
[R1] Krishna Prasad Garaga (IND)/ Dhruv Kapila (IND) bt Nicolas A. Mueller (SUI)/ Julien Scheiwiller (SUI) 21-13 21-12
[R1] (Q) Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) bt (2) Kim Astrup (DEN)/ Anders Skaarup Rasmussen (DEN) 21-16 21-18

[R1] Pooja Dandu (IND)/ Sanjana Santosh (IND) l Nadia Fankhauser (SUI)/ Iris Tabeling (NED) 21-12 15-21 16-21
[R1] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) bt Anastasiia Axchurina (RUS)/ Olga Morozova (RUS) 21-16 21-17

[R1] Dhruv Kapila (IND)/ Kuhoo Garg (IND) l Alberto Zapico (ESP)/ Lorena Usle (ESP) 13-21 21-17 19-21
[R1] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) bt Jones Ralfy Jansen (GER)/ Kilasu Ostermeyer (GER) 21-15 21-17
[R1] Arjun M.R. (IND)/ Maneesha K (IND) bt Li-Wei Po (TPE)/ Ching Hui Chang (TPE) 21-16 21-18

Some good upset wins by our players in the first round ... A young qualifier Riya scored a comeback win over the WR #62 Zetchiri ... In the doubles, a newly formed pairing of Pranaav and Chirag scored an upset straight games win over the WR #7 Danish pair ... Arun and Sanyam also scored a comfortable upset win over the top-25 Taiwani pair.

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