BADMINTON Chen, Marin winners in Australian Open finals

[Anup Tiwari]

SYDNEY: Star Indian shuttler and
defending champion Saina Nehwal
has been seeded No. 2 in the
women's singles event for the $
750,000 Australian Open Super
Series to be played here from May 26 to 31. World No. 2 Saina had defeated
Spaniard Carolina Marin -- who later
won the World Championships -- to
lift the trophy last year. This time
she will open her campaign against
a yet to be decided qualifier.
Meanwhile, World No. 11 PV Sindhu
is unseeded and has a tough
opening match in the face of former
World Champion Yihan Wang of
China.


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[Greatkarthik]

RE: BADMINTON Saina Nehwal seeded No. 2 at Australian Open

where it has been telecasted ?

 

[Anup Tiwari]

RE: BADMINTON Saina Nehwal seeded No. 2 at Australian Open

I think star sports.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

RE: BADMINTON Saina Nehwal seeded No. 2 at Australian Open

SYDNEY: Leading Indian shuttlers
Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth
won their first round matches in
contrasting style at the Star
Australian Open Superseries here on
Wednesday.
While World No.1 Saina comfortably
beat 67th-ranked Cheah Lyddia Yi Yu
of Malaysia, World No.4 Srikanth
pipped Hans-Kristian Vittinghus of
Denmark in a thrilling decider.
The women's doubles pair of Jwala
Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa, too,
made a winning start at the USD
750,000 event.
Among the Indians who made a first
round exit were P V Sindhu,
Parupalli Kashyap and R M V
Gurusaidutt, who took a game off
World No.1 Chen Long.
Defending champion Saina, playing
her opener late in the day, breezed
past Cheah 21-12, 21-10 to enter the
last 16 of the competition. The
second seed next plays Sun Yu of
China.
World No.14 Sindhu, however,
suffered a 21-18, 15-21, 23-25 loss
against eighth seed Wang Yihan.
Srikanth was the lone winner in the
men's singles, recovering to beat
Vittinghus 14-21, 21-8, 22-20 in a
match lasting 53 minutes. He plays
China's Tian Houwei on Thursday.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

RE: BADMINTON Australian Open

India's women doubles pair of Jwala
Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa made
it to the 2nd round.
The Indian pair defeated their
Netherlands competitors by 21-13,
21-13 in just 29 minutes.
Meanwhile, in the mixed doubles
Ponnappa and Pranaav Jerry Chopra
crashed out in the first round of the
Australian Open.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

RE: BADMINTON Australian Open

In Australian Open badminton
super series, World No.1 Saina
Nehwal survives scare against
China's Sun Yu to clinch the tie and
progress to the quarter-finals.
Third day of the super series saw
Indian women doubles pair of Jwala
Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa
crashed out of the tournament.
4th seeded Indonesian pair of Nitya
Krishinda Maheswari and Greysia
Polii got the better off indian duo
winning the match in just 32
minutes.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

RE: BADMINTON Australian Open

NEW DELHI: World number one and
defending champion Saina Nehwal
crashed out of Australian Open
Super Series on Friday, after losing
to Wang Shixian of China in the
quarterfinals.
Fifth seeded Wang dominated the
match from the beginning and
registered an emphatic 21-15, 21-13
victory over the second seeded
Indian ace.
Saina could not live up to her
reputation of being a gritty fighter
against the Chinese on Friday and
lost the last 8 encounter in straight
games in just 42 minutes.
With Saina's defeat, Indian
challenge in Down Under came to an
end as others had failed to reach the
quarterfinal stage in Sydney.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Chen, Marin winners in Australian
Open finals
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