Tuesday, March 08, 2016

Badminton News

At $550K Yonex All England Open Badminton Championships 2016, Birmingham (Superseries Premier)

[Q1] Sameer Verma (IND,41) bt (3) Ginting Anthony (INA,32) 21-17 21-13
[Q1] Lalita Dahiya (IND,180) l Kati Tolmoff (EST,79) w/o
[Q1] Vineeth Manuel (IND)/ S. Sanjeeth (IND) l Christopher Coles (ENG)/ Adam Hall (SCO) 9-21 10-21

[Q2] Sameer Verma (IND,41) bt Vladimir Malkov (RUS,47) 21-16 21-11

[R1] (Q) Sameer Verma (IND,41) vs Yun Hu (HKG,12)

Lot of withdrawals, Kashyap withdraw due to knee injury so Sai replaces him in main-draw against Wei ... Guru also decide to skip qualifying.

Sameer scores straight games upset win over WR #32 Ginting Anthony in the first qualifying round ... And then score comfortable straight games win over Russian Malkov for place in main-draw ... He will face WR #12 Yun Hu in the first round.

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