Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Badminton News

At TOTAL BWF World Championships 2019, Basel, Switzerland (Grade 1 - Individual Tournaments)

[R2] (7) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,10) bt Misha Zilberman (ISR,44) 13-21 21-13 21-16

[R2] (8) Saina Nehwal (IND,8) bt Soraya De Visch Eijbergen (NED,72) 21-10 21-11
[R2] (5) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,5) bt Yu Po Pai (TPE,45) 21-14 21-15

[R2] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) l (6) Cheng Kai Han (CHN)/ Hao Dong Zhou (CHN) 16-21 19-21
[R2] Arjun M.R. (IND)/ Ramchandran Shlok (IND) l (16) Cheng Liu (CHN)/ Nan Zhang (CHN) 14-21 13-21

[R2] Jakkampudi Meghana (IND)/ Poorvisha S Ram (IND) l (8) Shiho Tanaka (JPN)/ Koharu Yonemoto (JPN) 8-21 18-21
[R2] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l (7) Yue Du (CHN)/ Yin Hui Li (CHN) 20-22 16-21

[R3] (16) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,19) vs (6) Anthony Sinisuka Ginting (INA,8)
[R3] (7) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,10) vs (12) Kantaphon Wangcharoen (THA,15)

[R3] (8) Saina Nehwal (IND,8) vs (12) Mia Blichfeldt (DEN,12)
[R3] (5) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,5) vs (9) Beiwen Zhang (USA,10)

An expected win for Sindhu and Saina ... Next, Sindhu is facing Beiwen Zhang and Saina will face a Danish girl, Mia Blichfeldt.
Another unconvincing performance by Srikanth against lower-ranked player ... After losing first game Srikanth won it comfortably ... Next, he is facing a Thai challenge of Kantaphon Wangcharoen.
Our doubles players have tough matches ... Meghana and Poorvisha lost in straight games against the seeded Japanese pair ... Manu and Sumeeth lost in straight games against the seeded Chinese pair ... Ashwini and Sikki gave a fighting performance in their loss against their seeded Chinese opponents.

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