Badminton News

At $75K IDBI Federal Life Insurance Hyderabad Open 2019, India (BWF Tour Super 100)

[R1] (7) Sourabh Verma (IND,38) bt Adulrach Namkul (THA,122) 21-17 21-14
[R1] (1) Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) bt Tan Pearly Koong Le (MAS)/ Muralitharan Thinaah (MAS) 21-13 13-21 21-16

[R2] (7) Sourabh Verma (IND,38) bt Fei Xiang Sun (CHN,68) 21-16 21-11
[R2] (1) Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) bt Chasinee Korepap (THA)/ Kwanchanok Sudjaipraparat (THA) 21-19 21-16

[QF] (7) Sourabh Verma (IND,38) bt Ajay Jayaram (IND,72) 21-18 21-9
[QF] (1) Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) bt (8) Jakkampudi Meghana (IND)/ Poorvisha S Ram (IND) 21-16 21-15

[SF] (7) Sourabh Verma (IND,38) bt Iskandar Zulkarnain (MAS,69) 23-21 21-16
[SF] (1) Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) bt Fan Ka Yan (HKG)/ Wu Yi Ting (HKG) 21-12 21-12

Women's Doubles Final
(1) Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l Baek Ha Na (KOR)/ Jung Kyung Eun (KOR) 17-21 17-21

Men's Singles Final
(7) Sourabh Verma (IND,38) bt Loh Kean Yew (SIN,34) 21-13 14-21 21-16

Last week, Sourabh lifted the BWF Tour Super 100 tournament title in Hyderabad ... In the final, he defeated a higher-ranked Singaporean, Loh Kean Yew, in three games ... But our top-seed pairing of Ashwini and N. Sikki lost in the final against a lower-ranked Korean pair in straight games.