Monday, May 20, 2019

Badminton News

At Total BWF Sudirman Cup 2019, Nanning, China (Grade 1 - Team Tournaments)

Group 1 D
India l Malaysia 2-3

[XD] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Soon Huat Goh (MAS)/ Shevon Jemie Lai (MAS) 16-21 21-17 24-22
[MS] Sameer Verma (IND) l Zii Jia Lee (MAS) 13-21 15-21
[WS] Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND) bt Jin Wei Goh (MAS) 21-12 21-8
[MD] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) l Chia Aaron (MAS)/ Ee Yi Teo (MAS) 20-22 19-21
[WD] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l Mei Kuan Chow (MAS)/ Meng Yean Lee (MAS) 11-21 19-21

The Indian team is in a tough group with China and Malaysia in the Sudirman Cup.

A disappointing loss of our team against the depleted Malaysian team ... In his comeback match on the big stage, Satwik started with an upset win over a higher ranked Malaysian pair partnering Ashwini ... They lost the first game but fought back to win the second ... In the third game, our pair opened 12-8 lead but the Malaysian pair made it 12-all ... After that, our pair had 2-3 points lead but from 16-19 down Malaysian pair fought back and won next 4 points ... Our pair saved match points at 19-20 and 21-22 before converting the 2nd match point and gave a winning start for Indians ... Sindhu scored a comfortable win over Goh.

Sameer's straight games loss against a lower-ranked Zii Jia Lee cost us the match ... As in the men's doubles and the women's doubles, our both pairs lost against their Malaysian opponents.

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