Badminton News
At $250K China Super Series 2009,

[R1] Arvind Bhat (IND,23) bt Wan Ho Shon (KOR,44) 21-18 21-16
[R1] Chetan Anand (IND,17) bt (Q) Valeriy Atrashchenkov (UKR,74) 22-20 25-23
[R1] (7) Saina Nehwal (IND,6) bt Charmaine Reid (CAN,53) 21-6 21-12

[R1] Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) l Kasper Faust Henriksen (DEN)/ Anders Kristiansen (DEN) 19-21 12-21
[R1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponappa (IND) l (8) Yu Chin Chien (TPE)\ Wang Pei Rong (TPE) walkover
[R1] (8) Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) l Baek Choel Shin (KOR)/ Min Jung Kim (KOR) 14-21 3-11 Retd

[R2] Arvind Bhat (IND,23) vs (8) Dwi Kuncoro Sony (INA,9)
[R2] Chetan Anand (IND,17) vs Pengyu Du (CHN,39)
[R2] (7) Saina Nehwal (IND,6) vs Jingyun Xia (CHN,206)

In first game Arvind and Shon was neck to neck till 11-all but from there Arvind take lead and was leading 18-13 ... Shon did mini comeback and came near to 18-17 ... But Arvind kept his lead and won first game ... In second game Shon take early couple of point lead but Arvind caught with him at 6-all ... From 7-all Arvind won next 6 points and that did trick for him ... As Shon didn't able to overcome this lead ... From 11-20 down Shon won next 5 points but gap was too much .. Arvind won match in 40 mins.

Chetan was doing catching game in first game ... From start he was behind Atrashchenkov ... He was behind 1-6 then 5-12 then 10-16 then 12-18 ... But here Chetan fought back winning next 5 points to make it 17-18 ... Atrashchenkov had couple of game points at 18-20 but Chetan won next 4 points to win first game ... Interestingly Chetan first time take lead in the match at 21-20 ... In second game Chetan take early lead and at one time he was leading 13-10 and 14-12 but Atrashchenkov won next 6 points to take 14-18 lead ... Like first game again from 18-20 Chetan saved couple of game points and earned first match point ... This time Atrashchenkov saved that, then Chetan saved another couple of game points before winning match on second match point in 34 mins.

Saina produced commendable performance in her very easy straight games victory over Reid in just 25 mins ... Next round she is facing local tricky opponent.

Our womens double pair gave walkover to their opponents and MXD pair retired from their match in second game ... Hoping nothing serious injury issue to Jwala.