Friday, October 25, 2019

Badminton News

At $750K YONEX French Open 2019, Paris, France (HSBC BWF World Tour Super 750)

[QF] (8) Saina Nehwal (IND,8) l Se Young An (KOR,16) 20-22 21-23
[QF] (5) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,6) l (1) Tzu Ying Tai (TPE,1) 16-21 26-24 17-21

[QF] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) bt Kim Astrup (DEN)/ Anders Skaarup Rasmussen (DEN) 21-13 22-20

[SF] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) vs (5) Hiroyuki Endo (JPN)/ Yuta Watanabe (JPN)

Saina lost in s tight 2 games against a Korean Se Young An ... In both games, Saina missed a game point ... In the second she saved a couple of match points but An converted her 3rd match point.
Sindhu lost a close match against WR #1 Tzu Ying Tai in 75 minutes ... After losing the first game Sindhu fought hard, she saved a match point at 19-20 and converted the 5th game point to take the match into the third game ... In the third game, Tai took an early 4-8 and 8-14 lead, Sindhu can't catch Tai and lost the match.
Satwik and Chirag continue with their terrific form as they defeated the WR #8 Danish pair in straight sets... Before this in their previous 2 meetings, they lost against the same pair ... Next, they r facing the WR #6 Japanese pair, against whom also they lost 2 matches in 2018 and 2017.

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