Friday, June 23, 2017

Badminton News

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

[QF] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,11) bt Sai Praneeth B. (IND,16) 25-23 21-17
[QF] (5) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,4) l (1) Tzu Ying Tai (TPE,1) 21-10 20-22 16-21
[QF] Saina Nehwal (IND,16) l (6) Yu Sun (CHN,6) 17-21 21-10 17-21

[SF] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,11) vs (4) Yuqi Shi (CHN,4)

Srikanth continued with his terrific form, scoring a straight games win over Sai ... Before this Srikanth has 1-5 win-loss record against Sai but here he showed improved game for winning this match ... Next, he is facing Chinese top-5 player Yuqi Shi.

Missed opportunity for Sindhu against WR#1 Tai as she wasted one match point in the second game ... Sindhu started confidently and won the first game comfortably against Tai ... In the second game, both players were neck to neck throughout the game ... Sindhu had a match point at 20-19 which she faile to convert ... In the third game, Sindhu was leading 14-10 but after that she managed to win only 2 pts for losing the game.

Saina also lost in three games against Yu Sun ... After losing the first game Saina made strong comeback for winning the second comfortably ... In the third, Saina was up 12-9 and 15-13 but after that she lost 7 points in a row and Sun converted 3rd match point.

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