Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Badminton News

At $1.1M YONEX All England Open 2020, Birmingham (HSBC BWF World Tour Super 1000)

[R1] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,24) l Shesar Hiren Rhustavito (INA,17) 0-3
[R1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,10) l Jun Peng Zhao (CHN,36) 12-21 13-21
[R1] (3) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,14) l (3) Long Chen (CHN,5) 14-21 17-21
[R1] Lakshya Sen (IND,29) bt Cheuk Yiu Lee (HKG,18) 17-21 21-8 21-17

[R1] Saina Nehwal (IND,20) l (3) Akane Yamaguchi (JPN,3) 11-21 8-21
[R1] (6) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,6) bt Beiwen Zhang (USA,14) 21-14 21-17

[R1] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) bt Jenny Moore (ENG)/ Victoria Williams (ENG) 5-4 retd.

[R1] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l (1) Si Wei Zheng (CHN)/ Ya Qiong Huang (CHN) 13-21 21-11 17-21

[R2] Lakshya Sen (IND,29) vs (2) Viktor Axelsen (DEN,7)

[R2] (6) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,6) vs Ji Hyun Sung (KOR,12)

[R2] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) vs (7) Misaki Matsutomo (JPN)/ Ayaka Takahashi (JPN)

Sindhu started with straight games win over Zhang ... Next, she is facing a Korean Ji Hyun Sung, both players share an 8-all win-loss record.
A young Lakshya scored an excellent comeback win over a top-20 Cheuk Yiu Lee ... Next, he is facing a former WR #1 Danish player, Viktor Axelsen.
Srikanth and Saina had tough matches ... Srikanth lost in straight games against Long Chen and Saina also failed to challenge Akane Yamaguchi in the one-sided loss ... Sai also lost poorly against his Chinese opponent.
In the doubles, Ashwini and Sikki got a lucky break as their local opponents retired in the first game ... In the second round, they r facing the 7th seed Japanese pair.
In MXD, Pranaav and Sikki gave a fighting performance against a WR #1 Chinese pair.

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