Badminton News
At $200K Malaysia Super Series 2009, Kuala Lumpur

[R2] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,10) bt Hsiao Huan Chen (TPE,162) 21-16 19-21 21-19

[R2] Chetan Anand (IND,15) l (3) Peter Hoeg Gade (DEN,5) 7-21 8-21
[R2] Anup Sridhar (IND,45) l (2) Sony Dwi Kuncoro (INA,4) 12-21 18-21

[R2] Diju V (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) l Kien Keat Koo (MAS)/ Hui Lin Ng (MAS) 18-21 14-21

[QF] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,10) vs (4) Hongyan Pi (FRA,7)

Saina won her match in 48 minutes, unexpectedly tough fight from low ranked Taipei player ... After losing first game she managed to keep pressure on Saina in second game to won it ... In third game also she was matching with Saina's game, Chen was up 16-18 then 18-19 but Saian kept her cool to clinch this closely fought match to enter into another Super Series quarter finals.

Peter Gade crushed Chetan in mere 20 minutes ... Very tough loss for Chetan, who is in top-15, against world number 5 ... But Anup gave good fighting performance against world number 4 Sony Kuncoro in 34 minutes match ... He saved 5 match points but despite loss very encouraging comeback after long injury break to competitive badminton for Anup.