Badminton News
At $120K Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold 2009, Johor Bharu

[R1] (3) Chetan Anand (IND,15) l Iskandar Zulkarnian Zainudin (MAS,276) 16-21 21-18 17-21
[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,75) bt Chong Chieh Lok (MAS,170) 21-16 21-8
[R1] Anand Pawar (IND,44) l Wei Feng Chong (MAS,48) 14-21 21-11 15-21
[R1] (16) Anup Sridhar (IND,36) l Koichi Saeki (JPN,56) 21-17 11-21 17-21
[R1] (12) Kashyap Parupalli (IND,32) bt Kazuteru Kozai (JPN,68) 21-13 14-21 21-11
[R1] (9) Arvind Bhat (IND,27) bt Sune Gavnholt (DEN,91) 21-16 16-21 21-16

[R1] Aditi Mutatkar (IND,36) l Mingtian Fu (SIN,52) 11-21 4-11 Retd
[R1] (2) Saina Nehwal (IND,8) bt Porntip Buranaprasertsuk (THA,39) 21-18 22-20

[R1] Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) vs (6) Zhiben Chen (CHN)/ Ye Shen (CHN)
[R1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs Yin Loo Lim (MAS)/ Marylen Poau Leng Ng (MAS)
[R1] (1) Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) bt Mohd Fairuzizuan Mohd Tazari (MAS)/ Pei Tty Wong (MAS) 12-21 21-19 21-13

[R2] Ajay Jayaram (IND,75) bt Iskandar Zulkarnian Zainudin (MAS,276) 21-13 24-22
[R2] (12) Kashyap Parupalli (IND,32) l Chun Seang Tan (MAS,79) 20-22 11-21
[R2] (9) Arvind Bhat (IND,27) bt Yong Zhao Ashton Chen (SIN,249) 21-18 17-21 21-15

[R2] (1) Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs Wee Tat Tan (MAS)/ Hui Ern Ng (MAS)

[R2] (2) Saina Nehwal (IND,8) vs Ratchanok Inthanon (THA,135)

Mixed day for Indian shuttlers ... Shocking result for Chetan, who lost against lowly ranked Malaysian ... Anand Pawar comeback strongly after losing first game but in decider Chong take early lead and kept that pressure until the end ... After his excellent performance in Singapore Open Anup didn't able to repeat same in next 2 weeks.

Ajay Jayaram scored easy victory against Malaysian, otherhand Kashyap and Arvind needed 3 games to beat their opponents.

Top-seed pair of Diju and Jwala needed to dig deep to produce comeback wina gainst local pair ... In next round also they r facing another local pair.

Chetan's loss was more shocking as in second round Ajay Jayaram defeated Iskandar Zulkarnian Zainudin in straight games ... But Kashyap lost against local player in straight games ... Arvind also needed 53 minutes and tight 3 games to beat top-250 player ... Don't know if our players r playing very casually in this tournament.

Saina was also down in both games and needed damage control to score striaght games victory over her Thai opponent ... She is facing another Thai opponent in second round.