Monday, August 21, 2017

Badminton News

At TOTAL BWF World Championships 2017, Glasgow, Scotland

[R1] (8) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,8) bt Sergey Sirant (RUS,71) 21-13 21-12
[R1] Sameer Verma (IND,29) bt Pablo Abian (ESP,37) 21-8 17-4 retd.

[R1] Rituparna Das (IND,46) bt Airi Mikkela (FIN,54) 2-0 retd.
[R1] Tanvi Lad (IND,93) bt Chloe Birch (ENG,85) 17-21 21-10 21-19

[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ Sumeeth B. Reddy (IND) l Chung Eui Seok (KOR)/ Kim Dukyoung (KOR) 20-22 11-21

[R1] Sanjana Santosh (IND)/ Arathi Sara Sunil (IND) bt Natalya Voytsekh (UKR)/ Yelyzaveta Zharka (UKR) 21-15 21-18

[R1] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Maneesha K (IND) bt Tam Chun Hei (HKG)/ Ng Tsz Yau (HKG) 24-22 21-17
[R1] Yogendran Khrishnan (MAS)/ Prajakta Sawant (IND) bt Lu Ching Yao (TPE)/ Chiang Kai Hsin (TPE) 21-15 13-21 21-18
[R1] B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Sawan Serasinghe (AUS)/ Setyana Mapasa (AUS) w/o

[R2] (8) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,8) vs Lucas Corvee (FRA,63)
[R2] Sameer Verma (IND,29) vs (16) Rajiv Ouseph (ENG,20)

[R2] (4) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,5) vs Hyo Min Kim (KOR,42)
[R2] (12) Saina Nehwal (IND,16) vs Sabrina Jaquet (SUI,36)
[R2] Rituparna Das (IND,46) vs (16) Kirsty Gilmour (SCO,27)
[R2] Tanvi Lad (IND,93) vs (2) Ji Hyun Sung (KOR,3)

[R2] Sanjana Santosh (IND)/ Arathi Sara Sunil (IND) vs (14) Yixin Bao (CHN)/ Xiaohan Yu (CHN)

[R2] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Maneesha K (IND) vs (14) Mathias Christiansen (DEN)/ Sara Thygesen (DEN)
[R2] (15) Pranaav Jerry Chopra (ND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) vs Yogendran Khrishnan (MAS)/ Prajakta Sawant (IND)
[R2] B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs (13) Yilyu Wang (CHN)/ Dongping Huang (CHN)

Expected comfortable winning start for Srikanth against lower ranked Russian ... Next, he is facing below 60 ranked Frenchman, Lucas Corvee ... Saina is facing Swiss girl Jaquet in the second round ... Sindhu is having tricky opponent, Korean Hyo Min Kim ... In their last meeting in 2016, Kim defeated Sindhu in straight games.

Sameer was up 17-4 in the second after winning the first game when his Spaniard opponent Pablo Abian retired from the match ... Next, he is facing local favorite Rajiv Ouseph.

Tanvi scored excellent comeback after losing the first game against a local player, Chloe Birch ... Next. she is facing WR #3 Korean Ji Hyun Sung ... Rituparna also moved to the second round as her opponent retired after playing only 2 points ... Next, she is facing 16th seed Scottish girl, Kirsty Gilmour.

In the doubles, Sanjana and Arathi started with straight games win against Ukrainian pair ... Other hand, Sumeeth, and Manu lost in the first round against Korean pair..

Our all three MXD pairs started with a contrasting win ... Sumeeth-Ashwini received walkover from their Aussie pair but facing seeded Chinese pair in the second ... Satwik-Maneesha started with straight games win over Hong Kong pair and facing Danish seeded pair in the second round ... Prajakta with her Malaysian partner started with three games win over Taipei pair ... Next, they r facing Indian seeded pair Pranaav-Sikki.

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