$400K Yonex Denmark Open 2013,(Superseries)

[sameerph]

All the top Indian players are playing in Denmark open this week.

These are the qualifying results -

[Q1] (4) Sourabh Varma (IND,46) l Raul Must (EST,94) 13-21 21-6 18-21
[Q1] Anand Pawar (IND,33) bt Flemming Quach (DEN,88) 26-24 21-15
[Q1] K. Srikanth (IND,31) bt Christian Lind Thomsen (DEN,69) 21-13 21-8
[Q1] H.S. Prannoy (IND,43) l (3) Kento Momota (JPN,28) 14-21 19-21

[Q2] Anand Pawar (IND,33) bt Dieter Domke (GER,54) 21-7 21-7
[Q2] K. Srikanth (IND,31) l (3) Kento Momota (JPN,28) 19-21 21-10 17-21


Anand Pawar qualifies for main draw.

[sameerph]

These are the first round results -

At $400K Yonex Denmark Open 2013, Odense (Superseries)

[R1] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,13) bt Daren Liew (MAS,16) 11-4 Retd
[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,25) bt (8) Boonsak Ponsana (THA,8) 21-11 21-14
[R1] Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,24) bt Yun Hu (HKG,11) 21-17 21-14
[R1] (Q) Anand Pawar (IND,33) vs (2) Long Chen (CHN,2)

[R1] Arundhati Pantawane (IND,53) l (1) Xuerui Li (CHN,1) 17-21 15-21
[R1] P. V. Sindhu (IND,10) l Eriko Hirose (JPN,18) 19-21 20-22
[R1] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) bt Stefani Stoeva (BUL,64) 21-16 21-12


Good upset wins by Ajay & Guru. A bit disappointing loss for Sindhu.

[R2] Ajay Jayaram (IND,25) vs Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,24)

[R2] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) vs Kirsty Gilmour (SCO,30)

[suresh]

Badminton should have 16 seeds for the Super Series event. It is awful to see two top players play each other in the first round (I recall Saina as 8th seed playing the 9th ranked player).

[Omkara]

Surprised to see Guru ranked higher than Ajay

[ankit1407]

[R2] Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,24) def Ajay Jayaram (IND,25) 21-15,21-16

[jayakris]

Guru is finally beginning to be the guru that master prognosticator Sandeep had expected him to be? Good to see. Jay

[prashanthm]

Surprised to see Guru ranked higher than Ajay

He has been for almost 5 months now....

[prashanthm]

[R2] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) d. Kirsty Gilmour (SCO,30) 21-12 21-7

[R2] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,13) l. (5) Jan O Jorgensen (DEN,5) 11-21 15-21

Easy win for Saina, while Kashyap couldn't do much against the local fav Jorgensen.... his recoup from injury is probably still in progress...

[prashanthm]

Next up in the QF for Guru & Saina...

[QF] Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,24) v. (3) DU Pengyu (CHN,3)

[QF] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) v. (6) Ji Hyun Sung (KOR,6)

[suresh]

Is it Guru time? Will he take out Pengyu to live up to his early promise?

[sameerph]

[QF] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) l. (6) Ji Hyun Sung (KOR,6) 21-13, 18-21, 19-21

Unfortunate that Saina had her first loss against the Korean in her 5th match against her. Korean looked down & out till the middle of the second game. Then , suddenly Saina started making errors & the Korean girl gained in confidence. Great defensive game by the Korean in the third game where she picked up everything that Saina threw at her & that tired Saina. It seems fitnesswise , Saina is still not where she was before London Olympics.

[prashanthm]

[QF] Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,24) l. (3) DU Pengyu (CHN,3) 11-21 19-21

Tough fight by Guru in the 2nd game to lead 11-6 going into the interval, but Pengyu came screaming back, aided by a few errors by Guru and closed it out at 21-19...

All over for Indians...