Badminton News
At $200K Li-Ning Singapore Open Super Series 2010,

[R2] Kashyap PARUPALLI (IND,40) bt (3) Tien Minh NGUYEN (VIE,6) 23-21 21-18
[R2] Arvind BHAT (IND,33) bt Rajiv OUSEPH (ENG,22) 17-21 21-14 21-13
[R2] Chetan ANAND (IND,19) l (6) Simon SANTOSO (INA,12) 17-21 15-21
[R2] (1) Saina NEHWAL (IND,6) bt Ella DIEHL (RUS,15) 21-13 23-21
[R2] Aditi MUTATKAR (IND,33) l Linda ZECHIRI (BUL,37) 16-21 10-21

[R2] Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) l (8) Howard BACH (USA)/ Tony GUNAWAN (USA) 11-21 11-21
[R2] Jwala GUTTA (IND)/ Ashwini PONNAPPA (IND) bt (1) Miyuki MAEDA (JPN)/ Satoko SUETSUNA (JPN) 21-17 15-21 21-19
[R2] (6) Jwala GUTTA (IND)/ Valiyanti DIJU (IND) bt Marcus ELLIS (ENG)/ Mariana AGATHANGELOU (ENG) 21-13 21-10

[QF] (1) Saina NEHWAL (IND,6) vs (Q) Xuerui LI (CHN,75)
[QF] Arvind BHAT (IND,33) vs Kashyap PARUPALLI (IND,40)

[QF] Jwala GUTTA (IND)/ Ashwini PONNAPPA (IND) vs Shinta Mulia SARI (SIN)/ Lei YAO (SIN)
[QF] (6) Jwala GUTTA (IND)/ Valiyanti DIJU (IND) vs (2) Thomas LAYBOURN (DEN)/ Kamilla RYTTER JUHL (DEN)

Saina win her match after close second game to moved into quarters ... But Aditi surprisingly lost and Chetan also couldn't produce much fight against Santoso.

Jwala and Ashwini produced huge upest beating top-seed and WR #5 Japanese pair in closely fought match in 57 mins ... Biggest win for this pair, Jwala also moved into quarters of mixed doubles with Diju, they will face 2nd seed Danis pair.

What a win by Kashyap, beating top-10 player in straight games ... Arvind also fought back well after losing first game ... I think this would be first occasion that our 2 men players r quarter-finals of same Super Series tournament ... Moreover they r facing eachother in quarters, so 1 semi-final spot is secure.

Saina is facing Chinese qualifier in quarters ... So tricky one for her.