Badminton News
At Happy Suwon Badminton Asia Championships 2009, South Korea

[Q1] Sayali Gokhale (IND,219) bt Munkhchimeg Mendjargal (MGL,UNR) 21-8 21-4
[Q1] P. C. Thulasi (IND,UNR) l Min Jie Pai (TPE,UNR) 9-21 22-20 7-21

[Q2] Sayali Gokhale (IND,219) l (1) Jingjing Zhu (CHN,57) 17-21 13-21

[R1] Chetan Anand (IND,13) vs Kazuteru Kozai (JPN,84)
[R1] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,44) vs Kishor Rana (NEP,UNR)
[R1] Anand Pawar (IND,51) vs (Q) Chanthan Mao (CAM,UNR)

[R1] (7) Saina Nehwal (IND,8) vs Yanjiao Jiang (CHN,14)
[R1] Aditi Mutatkar (IND,39) vs Pei Hsin Chiang (TPE,111)

[R1] Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) vs Chen Xu (CHN)/ Zhendong Guo (CHN)

[R1] (7) Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs (Q) Mikhail Zakharov (KAZ)/ Karina Suleyeva (KAZ)

Again tough draw for Saina ... :-) This time she is facing WR #14 chinese opponent Yanjiao Jiang, who is defending champion of this tournament which she won last year ... Jiang is in good nick as she reached semis in All England Open and then she was finalist at Swiss Open Super Series ... Saina need to be careful in this match.

Aditi having easy first round match but she is playing just second tournament after long injury break so not sure about her match fitness ... Our men's having good draw, hopefully they will take advantage of it ... After top-seed's withdrawal from this tournament Chetan is highest seeded player in top-draw, good opportunity for him to improve his ranking.