Sunday, June 25, 2017

Badminton News

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

Courtesy BAI twitter
Men's Singles Final
Kidambi Srikanth (IND,11) bt Chen Long (CHN,6) 22-20 21-16

Srikanth won back to back Superseries title after winning Australian open ... In the final, he defeated Former WR #1 and current Olympics champion Chan Long in straight games in 45 mins ... Srikanth will be one of the favorites for next month's World Championship at Nanjing, China.

In the first game, Chen and Sri were necks to neck from the start ... Sometimes Sri was taking a couple of points lead then Chen was taking it back ... Srikanth raised his game from 17-19 down to win the first game on the second game point ... In the second game, again both players were matching other game but from 9-all Srikanth opened 3 points lead, 12-9 and kept that advantage for his first win over Chen ... This title win gave $56,250 in prize money.

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