Badminton News
At $50K Vietnam Open Grand Prix 2008,

[R2] (7) Ajay Jayaram (IND,81) bt Saravuth Prum (CAM,384) 21-10 21-3
[R2] (4) Kashyap P (IND,48) bt Ngo Manh Nguyen (VIE,UNR) 21-9 21-15
[R2] (2) Aditi Mutatkar (IND,36) bt Melicia Kurniawan (INA,150) 21-14 21-14

[R3] (7) Ajay Jayaram (IND,81) bt Zi Liang Derek Wong (SIN,157) 25-23 21-13
[R3] (4) Kashyap P (IND,48) bt Kazushi Yamada (JPN,147) 21-13 21-17

[QF] (4) Kashyap P (IND,48) l (6) Ari Yuli Wahyu Hartanto (INA,50) 13-21 18-21
[QF] (7) Ajay Jayaram (IND,81) l (1) Tien Minh Nguyen (VIE,17) 17-21 10-21

[QF] (2) Aditi Mutatkar (IND,36) l (7) Mingtian Fu (SIN,66) 20-22 21-17 14-21

[QF] (5) Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) l (1) Wan Wah Lee (MAS)/ Tan Fook Choong (MAS) 21-23 21-16 13-21

Aditi was favorite against Singaporean player ... After losing close first game she tried fightback winning second game ... But in third game Fu didn't give her any chance ... Lost opportunity for Aditi.

After winning his 2nd and 3rd round matches easily Kashyap lost his quarter-final against similar ranked Indonesian player ... Rupesh and Sanave also lost close match against top-seed Malaysian pair.
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Top 100 Ranking of Indian Badminton players on December 4, 2008

As expected first time in her short career 18 yrs old Saina Nehwal breaks into top 10 BWF ranking in newly declared rankings.

Womens Singles -
10 Saina Nehwal 49471 pts
36 Aditi Mutatkar 27960 pts
95 Neha Pandit 11860 pts

Womens Doubles -
25 Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) 31038 pts
66 Saina Nehwal (IND)/ Anna Rice (CAN) 11120 pts

Mens Singles -
15 Chetan Anand 41440 pts
33 Arvind Bhat 31307 pts
42 Anup Sridhar 25592 pts
48 P Kashyap 24170 pts
49 Anand Pawar 23720 pts
81 Ajay Jayaram 15380 pts

Mens Doubles -
44 Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) 21356 pts
68 Akshay Diwalkar (IND)/ V Diju (IND) 12865 pts

Mixed Doubles -
26 V Diju (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) 27240 pts