Badminton News

At $350K YONEX-SUNRISE India Open 2019, New Delhi (HSBC BWF World Tour Super 500)

[R1] (3) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,7) bt Wing Ki Vincent Wong (HKG,37) 21-16 18-21 21-19
[R1] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,55) bt Cheuk Yiu Lee (HKG,34) 14-21 21-18 21-10
[R1] Prannoy H. S. (IND,24) bt (6) Kantaphon Wangcharoen (THA,17) 14-21 21-18 21-14

[R1] (2) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,6) bt Mugdha Agrey (IND,71) 21-8 21-13

[R1] (6) Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) bt Ravi (IND)/ Lakshay Saroha (IND) 21-14 21-7

[R1] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) bt (6) Wenmei Li (CHN)/ Yu Zheng (CHN) 22-20 21-19
[R1] Shruti K.P (IND)/ Aparna Balan (IND) bt Rudrani Jaiswal (IND)/ Anubha Kaushik (IND) 21-10 21-5

[R2] (3) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,7) bt Guangzu Lu (CHN,18) 21-11 21-16
[R2] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,55) bt Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk (THA,58) 21-11 21-13
[R2] Prannoy H. S. (IND,24) bt Jan O Jorgensen (DEN,22) 21-19 20-22 21-17

[R2] (2) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,6) bt Joy Xuan Deng (HKG,37) 21-11 21-13

[R2] (6) Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) bt Kaixiang Huang (CHN)/ Zekang Wang (CHN) 25-23 21-18

[R2] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) bt Xiaofei Chen (CHN)/ Chaomin Zhou (CHN) 21-18 21-14
[R2] Shruti K.P (IND)/ Aparna Balan (IND) bt Wing Yung Ng (HKG)/ Nga Ting Yeung (HKG) 21-19 7-21 21-17

[QF] (3) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,7) bt Sai Praneeth B (IND,20) 21-23 21-11 21-19
[QF] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,55) bt Tzu Wei Wang (TPE,32) 21-16 21-11
[QF] Prannoy H. S. (IND,24) l (2) Viktor Axelsen (DEN,4) 10-21 16-21

[QF] (2) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,6) bt (8) Mia Blichfeldt (DEN,22) 21-19 22-20

[QF] (6) Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) bt Pranav Chopra (IND)/ Shivam Sharma (IND) 21-10 21-12

[QF] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l (1) Apriyani Rahayu (INA)/ Greysia Polii (INA) 10-21 18-21
[QF] Shruti K.P (IND)/ Aparna Balan (IND) l (2) Jongkolphan Kititharakul (THA)/ Rawinda Prajongjai (THA) 8-21 11-21

[SF] (3) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,7) bt Yuxiang Huang (CHN,30) 16-21 21-14 21-19
[SF] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,55) l (2) Viktor Axelsen (DEN,4) 11-21 17-21

[SF] (2) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,6) l (3) Bingjiao He (CHN,7) 21-23 18-21

[SF] (6) Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) l Ricky Karandasuwardi (INA)/ Angga Pratama (INA) 12-21 17-21

Men's Singles Final
(3) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,7) vs (2) Viktor Axelsen (DEN,4)

The Indian Open is going on, but only Srikanth manages to enter into the final ... He is facing the former WR #1 Danish player, Viktor Axelsen, for the title.

Sindhu again lost to her Chinese counterpart Bingjiao He in the close match ... Kashyap also reached to the semis but lost against Axelsen ... Prannoy and Sai reached to the quarters before losing to Axelsen and Srikanth respectively.

In the doubles, Manu and Sumeeth reached the semis before losing to the Indonesian pair ... Ashwini and Sikki started with an upset win over the 6th seeds Chinese pair before losing to the WR #5 Indonesian pair in the quarters ... Balan and Shriti also reached the quarters before losing to the WR #10 Thai pair.