Friday, April 26, 2019

Badminton News

At Badminton Asia Championships 2019, Wuhan, China

[QF] Sameer Verma (IND,15) l (2) Yuqi Shi (CHN,2) 10-21 12-21

[QF] (4) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,6) l Yanyan Cai (CHN,17) 19-21 9-21
[QF] (7) Saina Nehwal (IND,9) l (3) Akane Yamaguchi (JPN,4) 13-21 23-21 16-21

Our challenge ended in the quarters as our all players lost their respective matches ... Saina faced Akane Yamaguchi and gave fighting performance against her ... After losing the first game Saina saved a match point for winning the second ... In the third game, Saina was up 14-11 but Yamaguchi raised her game and only gave 2 more points to Saina before winning this game.
Sindhu had a disappointing loss against Yanyan Cai ... She lost in straight two games against Cai.
Sameer had a tough match against the WR #2, Yuqi Shi ... Sameer lost in a one-sided match against Yuqi.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

So Sindhu's poor run continues...Is Sindhu's sudden dip in form not a concern?

Jay said...

It's poor run, maybe due to some distraction. But this is an important year as within a year Olympic is around.

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