Badminton News
At $50K Yonex Dutch Open 2008,

[QF] Aditi Mutatkar (IND,45) bt Rosaria Yusfin Pungkasari (INA,90) 12-21 21-13 21-18
[QF] (6) Chetan Anand (IND,22) bt (13) Ari Yuli W. Hartanto (INA,46) 21-8 21-15
[QF] (14) Kashyap Parupalli (IND,58) bt (11) Dicky Palyama (NED,43) 21-14 21-15

[QF] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Diju V. (IND) l Christinna Pedersen (DEN)/ Joachim Fischer Nielsen (DEN) 10-21 15-21

[QF] Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) bt Kristof Hopp (GER)/ Johannes Schoettler (GER) 21-13 18-21 21-15

[QF] (3) Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) bt Johanna Goliszewski (GER)/ Michaela Peiffer (GER) 21-15 21-10

Aditi showed her recent good form scoring comeback victory against talented Indonesian in this 49 mins match ... In third game Aditi was in control from the start but Rosaria tried fightback from 12-18 to make it to 18-19 in favor of Aditi ... But Aditi played with cool head to won final 2 points and moved into yet another four star tournament semis ... In the semis she will face unseeded Bulgarian Linda Zechiri.

Otherhand Chetan scored straight games victory over top-50 Indonasian opponent in 29 mins ... Chetan performance showed his increased confidence and definetly top quality game.

Kashyap scored upset easy win over top-50 player ... Also our doubles teams reached into semis scoring contrasting wins.

Diju and Jwala's winning run ended in quarters .. But terrific last 3 weeks performance helped them to break into top-50 as a MXD pair playing only 6 tournaments together ... They r on #47.

In newly declared ranking Aditi move up 2 more places to #43.