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At $200K Malaysia Super Series 2009, Kuala Lumpur

[R1] Arvind Bhat (IND,35) l (8) Simon Santoso (INA,14) 15-21 12-21
[R1] Kashyap P (IND,49) l (3) Peter Hoeg Gade (DEN,5) 9-21 21-14 12-21
[R1] Chetan Anand (IND,15) bt Bobby Milroy (CAN,48) 21-10 21-12
[R1] Anup Sridhar (IND,45) bt Muhammad Roslin Hashim (MAS,39) 21-17 21-14
[R1] Anand Pawar (IND,50) l (Q) Hsuan Yi Hsueh (TPE,204) 27-25 16-21 19-21

[R1] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,10) bt Nicole Grether (GER,59) 21-15 21-8
[R1] Aditi Mutatkar (IND,36) l (3) Chen Wang (HKG,6) 21-17 18-21 19-21

[R1] (Q) Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) l Michal Logosz (POL)/ Robert Mateusiak (POL) 9-21 17-21

[R1] Diju V (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) bt Chieh Min Fang (TPE)/ Wen Hsing Cheng (TPE) 21-17 21-15

[R2] Chetan Anand (IND,15) vs (3) Peter Hoeg Gade (DEN,5)
[R2] Anup Sridhar (IND,45) vs (2) Sony Dwi Kuncoro (INA,4)

[R2] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,10) vs Hsiao Huan Chen (TPE,162)

[R2] Diju V (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs Kien Keat Koo (MAS)/ Hui Lin Ng (MAS)

As expected good start with easy wins for Saina and Chetan ... Anup started well after almost 6 months injury-break, he won match against similar ranked local player in straight games ... Chetan and Anup will have tough task in second round, as Chetan is facing Danish WR #5 Peter Gade and Anup will face Indonasian WR #4 Sony Kuncoro.

In mixed doubles promising start for Diju and Jwala ... In second round they r facing local pair.

Aditi played exceptionally well against top-10 player Wang winning first game, she was with Wang until 16-all in second game but then Wang showed her experience to win second game ... In third game Wang started well taking 1-4 lead but Aditi kept fighting and won consecutive 3 points to take 15-11 lead but again Wang came back strongly winning next 5 points to take 15-16 lead ... Aditi produced another fight back from 16-19 to 19-all ... But in end Wang showed her huge experience of big matches to win match 19-21 in 47 minutes.

P. Kashyap also produced decent performance against WR. #5 Peter Gade to stretch him until 3rd game ... But surprising loss of Anand against lowly ranked Taipei's qualifier ... Very disappointing effort by Anand in this 66 minutes match.