Saturday, August 24, 2019

Badminton News

At TOTAL BWF World Championships 2019, Basel, Switzerland (Grade 1 - Individual Tournaments)

[SF] (5) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,5) bt (4) Yu Fei Chen (CHN,3) 21-7 21-14

[SF] (16) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,19) l (1) Kento Momota (JPN,1) 13-21 8-21

[F] (5) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,5) vs (3) Nozomi Okuhara (JPN,4)

Sindhu scored a dominating win over Yu Fei for entering the third consecutive World Championships final ... Sindhu controlled the match from the start and didn't give any chance to Yu Fei ... In the final, she is facing her regular nemesis Nozomi Okuhara ... Okuhara defeated her for the World Championships title in 2017, but last year, Sindhu defeated her in the semi-final.

Sai Praneeth ended with a bronze at the World Championship as in the semis, Momota proved too strong for Sai Praneeth ... Still, a creditable performance by Sai Praneeth to win a bronze.

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