Wednesday, March 08, 2017

Badminton News

At $500K YONEX All England Open, Birmingham, England (SuperSeries Premier)

[R1] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,30) l (Q) Junpeng Zhao (CHN,53) 19-21 21-19 12-21
[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,19) l Huang Yuxiang (CHN,27) 19-21 13-21
[R1] Prannoy H. S. (IND,21) bt Qiao Bin (CHN,24) 17-21 22-20 21-19
[R1] (6) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,5) bt Mette Poulsen (DEN,33) 21-10 21-11
[R1] (8) Saina Nehwal (IND,10) bt Nozomi Okuhara (JPN,11) 21-15 21-14

[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) l (Q) Peter Briggs (ENG)/ Tom Wolfenden (ENG) 19-21 21-10 18-21
[R1] Meghana Jakkampudi (IND)/ Poorvisha S Ram (IND) l Ya Ching Hsu (TPE)/ Ti Jung Wu (TPE) 19-21 12-21
[R1] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l Yeon Seong Yoo (KOR)/ Ha Na Kim (KOR) 19-21 20-22

[R2] Prannoy H. S. (IND,21) vs (7) Houwei Tian (CHN,6)
[R2] (6) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,5) vs Dinar Dyah Ayustine (INA,39)
[R2] (8) Saina Nehwal (IND,10) vs Fabienne Deprez (GER,63)

Saina started with a comfortable win against defending champion Okuhara, who was playing her first match after November ... Next, she is facing German girl Fabienne Deprez ... Sindhu also started with dominating win over her Danish opponent ... Next, she is facing Indonesian girl Dinar Dyah Ayustine ... Prannoy needed to dig deep for his win over similar ranked Chinese opponent Qiao Bin ... After losing the first game Prannoy had 4 game points at 20-16, Bin saved all 4 but Prannoy converted 5th for taking the match into the final game ... Prannoy kept his composure and nerve for winning this game ... Next, he is having another tough Chinese challenge from WR #6 Houwei Tian.

Srikanth struggled to continue as he lost against Chinese qualifier in three games ... Ajay also lost against his Chinese opponent without challenging him in the second.

Disappointing start in the doubles as our both pairs lost in the first round ... I was hoping a win by Manu and Sumeeth against British qualifiers ... In MXD, Pranaav and Sikki lost in the close match against Korean pair.

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