Asian Badminton championships 2014, Gimcheon, Korea

[sameerph]

Asian Badminton championships taking place this week in Korea. Saina has given a miss to this but other top Indian players are playing.

[R1] Srikanth K. (IND,16) l Dan Lin (CHN,104) 7-21 14-21
[R1] R M V Gurusaidutt (IND,40) bt Khosit Phetpradab (THA,111) 22-20 23-21
[R1] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,19) bt Soon Huat Goh (MAS,147) 21-14 21-17
[R1] P V Sindhu (IND,10) bt Ngan Yi Cheung (HKG,147) 21-15 15-21 21-18

[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ B Sumeeth Reddy (IND) l Juan Shen Low (MAS)/ Nelson Wei Keat Heg (MAS) 21-16 13-21 20-22
[R1] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND) l Wen Zhang (CHN)/ Yilv Wang (CHN) 18-21 19-21
[R1] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) bt Mingtian Fu (SIN)/ Yu Yan Vanessa Neo (SIN) 21-18 21-15


Bad draw for Srikant against Lin Dan but others seem to have laboured to wins.

[sameerph]

[R2] R M V Gurusaidutt (IND,40) bt Tzu Wei Wang (TPE,59) 17-21 21-13 21-19
[R2] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,19) l Hsu Jen Hao (TPE,27) 23-25 17-21
[R2] P V Sindhu (IND,10) bt Eriko Hirose (JPN,16) 14-21 21-13 21-18
[R2] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) bt (3) Duanganong Aroonkesorn (THA)/ Kunchala Voravichitchaikul (THA) 21-11 21-18

Big win for Sindhu against experienced Japanese Eriko Hirose as she had lost to her in all three previous meetings.

Big upset but Ashwini-Jwala over the WR #12 Thai pair . Their biggest win after getting together this year.

Next,

[QF] R M V Gurusaidutt (IND,40) vs (Q) Kai Liu (CHN,259)
[QF] P V Sindhu (IND,10) vs Busanan Ongbumrungpan (THA,18)
[QF] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs Amelia Alicia Anscelly (MAS)/ Fie Cho Soong (MAS)

[gbelday]

Asian Badminton championships taking place this week in Korea. Saina has given a miss to this but other top Indian players are playing.

[R1] Srikanth K. (IND,16) l Dan Lin (CHN,104) 7-21 14-21

Bad draw for Srikant against Lin Dan but others seem to have laboured to wins.

Dan's ranked 104?

[prashanthm]

He's making a comeback after a break, I presume...

[suresh]

He's making a comeback after a break, I presume...

I don't think he (Lin Dan) is planning on a comeback -- he comes and plays when he wants to. He is so good that, somewhat depressingly for top players, he can still contend and win by playing randomly. Badminton can't afford to turn its back on him given his popularity.

[prasen9]

Nonetheless, disappointing outing for our top men.

[arjun2761]

He's making a comeback after a break, I presume...

I don't think he (Lin Dan) is planning on a comeback -- he comes and plays when he wants to. He is so good that, somewhat depressingly for top players, he can still contend and win by playing randomly. Badminton can't afford to turn its back on him given his popularity.

Yes, he's still very good. Last week, he played and won a GP Gold event in China without being challenged in a single set including beating Chinese players ranked WR #7 and #15 in the final 2 rounds easy straight sets. Clearly, he's pretty close to being a WR #1 in his level of play right now.

[Sin Hombre]

He won the world championship last year ranked outside 100.

Without a doubt, both him and LCW are miles ahead of every other singles player.

[ankit1407]

[QF] R M V Gurusaidutt (IND,40) l (Q) Kai Liu (CHN,259) 24-22 9-21 13-21

upset in terms of ranking, however given how Chinese players are in general pretty much expected...

[ankit1407]

[QF] P V Sindhu (IND,10) def Busanan Ongbumrungpan (THA,18) 14-21 21-13 21-10

[ankit1407]

[QF] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) def Amelia Alicia Anscelly (MAS)/ Fie Cho Soong (MAS) 21-12 21-12

[Omkara]

2 in SFs.... One of the better tournaments this year

[sameerph]

Good run by Sindhu & nice to Jwala-Ashwini doing well after a long time.

Next,

[SF] P V Sindhu (IND,10) vs (2) Shixian Wang (CHN,2)

[SF] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs Ying Luo (CHN)/ Yu Luo (CHN)

Sindhu plays in-form Wang whom she had beaten 3 times before losing in the Indian open super series last month. She has a chance to avenge that defeat now.

[Sin Hombre]

2 in SFs.... One of the better tournaments this year

This is a GPG level tournament at best. Singapore open SS where we had one semifinalist (Srikanth) and 2 quarterfinalists (Sindhu and Praneeth) is still better. Of course, if both win tomorrow, I will have a different tune.

[Sin Hombre]

Sindhu had a match point in the 2nd set against Shixian Wang but couldn't convert, on to a decider now.