European Series tournaments,October 2018

[jaydeep]

Saina's search for a win over the WR #1 Tzu Ying Tai continues ... She lost her 11th match in a row against Tai ... After losing the first game Saina tried to fight back and won the second game, but Tai was too good in the third and completed win in the 52 mins.

At $775K DANISA Denmark Open 2018, Odense (HSBC BWF World Tour Super 750)

Women's Singles Final
Saina Nehwal (IND,10) l (1) Tzu Ying Tai (TPE,1) 13-21 21-13 6-21

[kaustav]

Still its a fantastic week for her...I have watched and even commentators were saying that Tai was unbeatable in the 3rd game....Some of her shots are simple out of the universe...With age Saina is getting hungrier and fighting qualities improving day by day except Tai she wont be overwhelmed by anyone on the tour in upcoming years...And Kashyap in the courtside is working well for her...next stop French Open world tour 750 SS...

[sameerph]

Actually this has been pretty good year for Saina just when he thought she might be ageing. Gold at Commonwealth game, bronze at Asian games, runner up at Indonesia super 500 early this year and now runner up at Denmark super 750. I was beginning to doubt about it earlier, but now looks she should still be very much in contention for an an olympic medal at Tokyo in 2 years time.

[kaustav]

Spot on.... Except Tai who seems to be in classic form , all other opponents are quite beatable the way she is moving nowadays...Kashyap has become a lucky factor for her..Sometimes in life romance is needed and its working for Saina...

[SaniaFan]

BTW has she given up on year ending world tour finals? Her marriage date is clashing with it.

[kaustav]

Because she is 25th only in the race for world tour final...So it would be almost impossible for her to move into top 8 within a month until she wins back back super series at France and China...Thats why

[jaydeep]

Sindhu took a revenge of her last week's loss against Zhang ... After winning the first game Sindhu dominated the second.
Arjun and Shlok played a decent match against the WR #2 Chinese pair.

At $750K YONEX French Open 2018, Paris, France (HSBC BWF World Tour Super 750)

[R1] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt Beiwen Zhang (USA,11) 21-17 21-8

[R1] Arjun M.R. (IND)/ Ramchandran Shlok (IND) l (2) Junhui Li (CHN)/ Yuchen Liu (CHN) 14-21 17-21

[jaydeep]

Overall decent draw for Indians, though Saina can face Tai in the quarters.

At $750K YONEX French Open 2018, Paris, France (HSBC BWF World Tour Super 750)

[R1] (5) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,6) vs Wing Ki Vincent Wong (HKG,22)
[R1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,26) vs Ygor Coelho (BRA,38)
[R1] Sameer Verma (IND,23) vs Jonatan Christie (INA,13)

[R1] Saina Nehwal (IND,11) vs Saena Kawakami (JPN,37)

[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) vs Min Hyuk Kang (KOR)/ Won Ho Kim (KOR)
[R1] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) vs Jones Ralfy Jansen (GER)/ Josche Zurwonne (GER)

[R1] Jakkampudi Meghana (IND)/ Poorvisha S Ram (IND) vs Lise Jaques (BEL)/ Flore Vandenhoucke (BEL)

[R1] Rohan Kapoor (IND)/ Kuhoo Garg (IND) vs (1) Siwei Zheng (CHN)/ Yaqiong Huang (CHN)
[R1] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs Chris AdCock (ENG)/ Gabrielle AdCock (ENG)

[Sin Hombre]

Saina vs Saena.

May the best Sana win.

[sameerph]

Proved to be easy for Saina.

Full first round results-

[R1] (5) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,6) d. Wing Ki Vincent Wong (HKG,22) 21-19 21-13
[R1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,26) d. Ygor Coelho (BRA,38) 21-13 21-17
[R1] Sameer Verma (IND,23) l Jonatan Christie (INA,13) 21-16 17-21 15-21

[R1] Saina Nehwal (IND,11) d. Saena Kawakami (JPN,37) 21-11 21-11
[R1] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) d. Beiwen Zhang (USA,11) 21-17 21-8

[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) d. Min Hyuk Kang (KOR)/ Won Ho Kim (KOR) 21-18 21-17
[R1] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) d, Jones Ralfy Jansen (GER)/ Josche Zurwonne (GER) 21-13 21-15
[R1] Arjun M.R. (IND)/ Ramchandran Shlok (IND) l (2) Junhui Li (CHN)/ Yuchen Liu (CHN) 14-21 17-21

[R1] Jakkampudi Meghana (IND)/ Poorvisha S Ram (IND) d. Lise Jaques (BEL)/ Flore Vandenhoucke (BEL) 21-12 21-12

[R1] Rohan Kapoor (IND)/ Kuhoo Garg (IND) l (1) Siwei Zheng (CHN)/ Yaqiong Huang (CHN) 5-21 10-21
[R1] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Chris AdCock (ENG)/ Gabrielle AdCock (ENG) 22-24 21-18 19-21

All results going as per rankings which is rare. Sameer could not repeat his last week's upset of Asiad gold medalist but Sindhu reversed last week's loss.

[sameerph]

Today's matches -

[R2] (5) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,6) vs Dong Keun Lee (KOR,29)
[R2] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,26) vs Jonatan Christie (INA,13)

[R2] Saina Nehwal (IND,11) vs (8) Nozomi Okuhara (JPN,7)
[R2] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) vs Sayaka Sato (JPN,17)

[R2] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) vs (3) Cheng Liu (CHN)/ Nan Zhang (CHN)
[R2] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) vs Jiting He (CHN)/ Qiang TAN (CHN)

[R2] Jakkampudi Meghana (IND)/ Poorvisha S Ram (IND) vs (4) Greysia Polii (INA)/ Apriyani Rahayu (INA)

[kaustav]

Saina Newhwal moved into the Q final. Defeated Nazomi Okuhara in consecutive weeks. After losing the first game bounced back to win the next two. Head to Head stands 8-4 now. Qfinal will be against Tai the reigning world no 1

[depleter]

Both Srikanth and Saina are through to the quarters but both of them will face the current world no 1's. They both lost to the same players last week...

[Sin Hombre]

Very unlikely either Srikanth or Saina will win.

In a major upset, Manu and Sumeeth beat the 3rd seeded Chinese pair in straights. And we will have an Indian QF in doubles at a BWF750 event!

Two weeks in a row where one of our doubles pairs has outperformed, sounds like something changed on the coaching side.

[Sin Hombre]

BTW can someone who understands badminton better explain how post-ban Momota is so dominant?

TTY's domination in the women is kind of understandable, she is a master of deception and variation and it is incredibly hard for the other girls to read her.