Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Badminton News

At $750K Australian Open 2017, Sydney (Superseries)

[R1] (Q) Parupalli Kashyap (IND,69) l (1) Wan Ho Son (KOR,1) 15-21 21-14 15-21
[R1] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,22) bt Chao Yu Kan (TPE,636) 21-13 21-16
[R1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,14) bt Tommy Sugiarto (INA,26) 10-21 21-12 21-10
[R1] (Q) Siril Verma (IND,93) l Hans-Kristian Solberg Vittinghus (DEN,29) 16-21 8-21
[R1] H.S. Prannoy (IND,25) l Rajiv Ouseph (ENG,30) 19-21 13-21
[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,13) l (7) Ka Long Angus Ng (HKG,6) 21-14 10-21 9-21
[R1] (5) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt Sayaka Sato (JPN,17) 21-17 14-21 21-18
[R1] Saina Nehwal (IND,15) bt (4) Ji Hyun Sung (KOR,5) 21-10 21-16
[R1] (Q) Ruthvika Shivani Gadde (IND,73) l Chen Xiaoxin (CHN,33) 17-21 21-12 12-21

[R1] Francis Alwin (IND)/ Kona Tarun (IND) l Hendra Setiawan (INA)/ Boon Heong Tan (MAS) 17-21 15-21
[R1] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) bt Law Cheuk Him (HKG)/ Lee Chun Hei Reginald (HKG) 20-22 21-19 21-11
[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) l (3) Takeshi Kamura (JPN)/ Keigo Sonoda (JPN) 20-22 6-21
[R1] N. Sikki Reddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Hsuan-Yu Wendy Chen (AUS)/ Jennifer Tam (AUS) 21-11 21-13
[R1] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Lee Chun Hei Reginald (HKG)/ Chau Hoi Wah (HKG) 13-21 17-21

[R2] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,22) vs (1) Wan Ho Son (KOR,1)
[R2] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,14) vs Yuxiang Huang (CHN,21)
[R2] (5) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) vs Xiaoxin Chen (CHN,33)
[R2] Saina Nehwal (IND,15) vs Soniia Cheah (MAS,28)

[R2] N. Sikki Reddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs (7) Shiho Tanaka (JPN)/ Koharu Yonemoto (JPN)
[R2] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) vs (8) Hung Ling Chen (TPE)/ Chi-Lin Wang (TPE)

Good comeback win by Sai against experienced Sugiarto ... Expected straight games win for Srikanth.

Kashyap gave fighting performance against Korean WR#1 Wan Ho Son in three games loss ... Ajay failed to challenge Ka Long Angus Ng after winning the first game ... Siril also failed to challenge top-30 Danish opponent ... Disappointing loss of Prannoy against British veteran Rajiv Ouseph, was hoping another good run after his heroic Indonesian Superseries title win ... Next, Srikath is facing Son and Sai is facing Huang.

Saina scored dominating upset win over top-5 Korean player, Ji Hyun Sung ... Now, hoping for string of wins after this good start ... Sindhu scored three games win against tricky Japanese opponent, Sayaka Sato ... Ruthvika gave fighting performance against her higher ranked Chinese opponent ... In the second round, Saina is facing Malaysian girl Cheah and Sindhi is facing Chen.

Expected winning start for Ashwini and Sikki against local pair ... Next, they r facing 7th seed Japanese pair ... In MXD, I was hoping better performance from Satwik-Ashwini against Hong Kong pair ... Manu-Sumeeth's challenge frizzled out after the first game against seeded Japanese pair ... Satwik started with superb comeback win against higher ranked Hong Kong pair with his partner Chirag ... Next, they r facing 8th seed Taipei player.

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