Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Badminton News

At $400K Yonex-Sunrise Hong Kong Open 2019, Kowloon, Hong Kong China (HSBC BWF World Tour Super 500)

[Q1] (4) Sourabh Verma (IND,38) bt Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk (THA,39) 21-15 21-19
[Q2] (4) Sourabh Verma (IND,38) bt Lucas Claerbout (FRA,77) 21-19 21-19

[R1] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,13) bt (1) Kento Momota (JPN,1) w/o
[R1] (Q) Sourabh Verma (IND,38) bt (Q) Brice Leverdez (FRA,34) 21-11 21-15
[R1] Prannoy H. S. (IND,28) bt Yu Xiang Huang (CHN,29) 21-17 21-17
[R1] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,25) bt Kenta Nishimoto (JPN,12) 21-18 16-21 21-10
[R1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,10) l (5) Yu Qi Shi (CHN,7) 21-11 18-21 12-21
[R1] Sameer Verma (IND,16) l Tzu Wei Wang (TPE,26) 11-21 21-13 8-21

[R1] (8) Saina Nehwal (IND,9) l Yan Yan Cai (CHN,22) 13-21 20-22
[R1] (6) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,6) bt Ga Eun Kim (KOR,19) 21-15 21-16

[R1] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) l Takuro Hoki (JPN)/ Yugo Kobayashi (JPN) 21-17 16-21 17-21

[R1] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l Maiken Fruergaard (DEN)/ Sara Thygesen (DEN) 13-21 12-21

[R1] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l (3) Dechapol Puavaranukroh (THA)/ Sapsiree Taerattanachai (THA) 10-21 18-21
[R1] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Nipitphon Phuangphuapet (THA)/ Savitree Amitrapai (THA) 16-21 21-19 21-17

[R2] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,13) vs (Q) Sourabh Verma (IND,38)
[R2] Prannoy H. S. (IND,28) vs (6) Jonatan Christie (INA,6)
[R2] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,25) vs (2) Tien Chen Chou (TPE,2)

[R2] (6) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,6) vs Busanan Ongbamrungphan (THA,18)

[R2] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs (4) Yuta Watanabe (JPN)/ Arisa Higashino (JPN)

Sourabh qualified for the main-draw with back to back wins ... In the first round, he scored a comfortable win over another qualifier, Brice Leverdez.
Srikanth receives a walkover as WR #1 Momota withdrawn from the tournament ... Next, he is facing Sourabh Verma.
Pranoy scored a straight-games win over a similar ranked Chinese opponent ... Next, he is facing the top-10 Indonesian, Jonatan Christie.
An impressive win by Kashyap against WR #12 Nishimoto, but he is having another tough match against WR #2 Chou.
Sindhu scored a comfortable win over a Korean girl ... Next, she is facing a Thai girl, Busanan Ongbamrungphan.
Saina again lost against a Yan Yan Cai in straight games... Sameer also failed to overcome the challenge of Tzu Wei Wang.
Sai lost after winning the first game against Yu Qi, he failed to close match in the second game.

Satwik and Ashwini started with a comeback win over higher-ranked Thai pair, but Pranaav and Sikki lost in straight games against the WR #4 Thai pair .. Satwik and Ashwini will face the 4th seed Japanese pair.

Meantime, in newly updated rankings, Satwik and Chirag achieve their career-best WR #7 men's doubles ranking, but they had a bad loss after winning the first game against a Japanese pair.

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