Wednesday, May 01, 2019

Badminton News

At $150K BARFOOT & THOMPSON New Zealand Open 2019, Auckland (HSBC BWF World Tour Super 300)

[Q1] Lakshya Sen (IND,71) bt (1) Ajay Jayaram (IND,47) 21-18 21-13
[Q2] Lakshya Sen (IND,71) bt Teck Zhi Soo (MAS,70) 21-11 21-12

[R1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,20) bt Subhankar Dey (IND,41) 21-17 19-21 21-15
[R1] Prannoy H. S. (IND,26) bt Kean Yew Loh (SIN,50) 21-15 21-14
[R1] (Q) Lakshya Sen (IND,71) l Tzu Wei Wang (TPE,32) 21-15 18-21 10-21

[R1] Anura Prabhudesai (IND,113) vs Xuerui Li (CHN,15) 9-21 10-21
[R1] (2) Saina Nehwal (IND,9) l Zhiyi Wang (CHN,212) 16-21 23-21 4-21

[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) bt Joshua Feng (NZL)/ Jack Jiang (NZL) 21-7 21-10

[R1] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l Xuanxuan Liu (CHN)/ Yuting Xia (CHN) 14-21 23-21 14-21

[R2] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,20) vs (7) Lin Dan (CHN,12)
[R2] Prannoy H. S. (IND,26) vs (2) Tommy Sugiarto (INA,13)

[R2] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) vs (7) V. Shem Goh (MAS)/ Wee Kiong Tan (MAS)

Lakshya qualified for the main draw of the Super 300 tournament beating higher ranked Ajay and Teck Zhi, but lost against Loh in the first round after winning the first game.
Sai and Prannoy won their respective matches in contrasting style ... Both have tough matches in the second round ... Sai is facing a legendary Lin Dan and Prannoy having a challenge of Tommy Sugiarto.
Saina lost to a current Junior Asian champion and a Youth Olympic silver medalist Chinese girl, Zhiyi Wang ... After losing the first game Saina dug deep to win the second game but Zhiyi Wang blown away Saina's challenge in the third and won it losing only 4 points ... The expected loss for Anura against the former WR #` Xuerui Li.
Manu and Sumeeth started with a comfortable win against a local pair ... Next, they r facing the 7th seeds Malaysian pair.
In their comeback match after an injury layoff, Ashwini and Sikki lost against a Chinese pair in three games.

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