Badminton News
At $200K French Super Series 2009, Paris

[R1] (Q) Anup Sridhar (IND,38) l (1) Dan Lin (CHN,2) 13-21 9-21
[R1] Chetan Anand (IND,17) l (6) Joachim Persson (DEN,11) 21-15 20-22 16-21
[R1] Arvind Bhat (IND,24) l Dicky Palyama (NED,19) 14-21 19-21

[R1] (8) Saina Nehwal (IND,9) bt Juliane Schenk (GER,11) 21-18 19-21 21-13
[R1] Aditi Mutatkar (IND,55) l Anu Nieminen (FIN,49) 19-21 21-23

[R1] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Jishnu Sanyal (IND) l Chris Langridge (ENG)/ Robin Middleton (ENG) 21-18 8-21 14-21
[R1] Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) vs Qualifier
[R1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Line Damkjaer Kruse (DEN)/ Mie Schjott-Kristensen (DEN) 21-17 21-18
[R1] (6) Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs Baptise Careme (FRA)/ Laura Choinet (FRA)

[R2] (8) Saina Nehwal (IND,9) vs Pui Yin Yip (HKG,15)

Saina was behind in the first game but she caught her German opponent from 11-17 down to leading 20-17 winning 9 points on trot ... Exactly opposite happened in second game as Saina take early lead ... But Juliane caught with her at 13-all ... Then Saina take next 2 points to lead 15-13 but again Juliane won next 5 points to lead 15-18 ... Again Saina won next 4 points to lead 19-18, this time also Juliane came back strongly winning next 3 points to captured second game ... In third game after 2-all Saina take control of the match and kept atleast 3 points lead to won this game easily at 21-13 ... Saina needed 53 minutes to win this match.

This week Saina having tough draw as in second round she is playing another top-15 Hong Long player and can face WR #1 Lin Wang in quarter.

After winning first game easily controlling from the start Chetan saved 2 game points in second game but Joachim take it on extra point ... In third game Joachim take control from 2-all and then didn't lose control over the match to won it in 45 mins ... Interestingly last week Guru defeated same Joachim Persson.

Anup lost in 27 mins against Chinese Dan Lin in one-sided match ... In first game he managed to win points in double figure but in second game Lin didn't give him that pleasure.

In first game Arvind take early 6-4 lead but Dicky won next 6 points to take control of the game ... Then he kept pressure on Arvind to won first game easily ... In second game also Dicky take initiative from 3-all ... But from 6-9 down Arvind won next 6 points to take lead but again Dicky caught him at 13-all ... From 15-all Dicky won next 4 points and converted 4th match point to won it in 34 mins.

Also good straight games win by Jwala and Ashwini against Danish pair.