Badminton News
At $300K Korean Super Series 2009,

[R1] P Kashyap (IND,49) l (7) Przemyslaw Wacha (POL,12) 11-21 17-21
[R1] Arvind Bhat (IND,35) bt Chetan Anand (IND,15) 21-12 21-13
[R1] Anup Sridhar (IND,45) l Wei Ng (HKG,24) 23-21 17-21 22-24
[R1] Anand Pawar (IND,50) l Mohamad Arif Abdul Latif (MAS,69) 14-21 15-21

[R1] Aditi Mutatkar (IND,36) l Julia Pei Xian Wong (MAS,21) 9-21 15-21

[R1] V Diju (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) bt Yeon Seong Yoo (KOR)/ Min Jung Kim (KOR) 21-19 14-21 21-19

[R2] Arvind Bhat (IND,35) vs (7) Przemyslaw Wacha (POL,12)
[R2] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,10) vs Adrianti Firdasari (INA,35)

[R2] Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) vs (3) Lars Paaske (DEN)/ Jonas Rasmussen (DEN)

[R2] V Diju (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs (1) Nova Widianto (INA)/ Liliyana Natsir (INA)

For me disappointing day for Indians ... Frankly nobody take advantage of their opponents ... Arvind surprised his senior with easy victory in just 24 minutes ... Diju and Jwala scored hard fought win against local player, but facing top-seed in second round.

Aditi lost against Malaysian in 28 minutes ... Anand Pawar had good opportunity to move deep into draw after WR #5 Sony's withdrawal but he lost easily against lowly ranked Malaysian in 26 minutes ... Anup Sridhar had excellent opportunity against Wei Ng, after one game-all in the third game Anup was down 12-16 but he won next 8 points to gave himself 4 match points ... Somehow he didn't manage to convert one of them and lost match 22-24 in 63 minutes.