BWF World Championships 2019

[Sin Hombre]

With Satwik and Chirag withdrawing, not much to look forward to.

We have had 9 years in a row where we have won at least a medal in that year's main competition (WC or OG). I think that streak will break this year unless Sindhu the big tournament player shows up.

D1's action went as expected.

All 4 of our men were supposed to win easily as per rankings. Only 3 did with #14 Sameer Verma losing to #34. Srikanth and Prannoy barely beat #81 and #93. Hard to see them doing much here.

[SaniaFan]

Today Prannoy defeated World no 11 Lin Dan to enter round of 16.

[rajitghosh]

Lin Dan is semi-retired and more focused on business than badminton

[SaniaFan]

But still ranked 17th!!!! and ranked higher than most of our players . And he is semi retired for last 5 years and still keeps coming back and winning.
BTW I just checked he played 20 tournaments in last year. That is more than most in top 20!!!

[jaydeep]

Scores in complete ........

At TOTAL BWF World Championships 2019, Basel, Switzerland (Grade 1 - Individual Tournaments)

[R1] Prannoy H. S. (IND,30) bt Eetu Heino (FIN,93) 17-21 21-10 21-11
[R1] (16) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,19) bt Jason Anthony Ho-Shue (CAN,66) 21-17 21-16
[R1] (7) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,10) bt Nhat Nguyen (IRL,81) 17-21 21-16 21-6
[R1] (10) Sameer Verma (IND,14) l Loh Kean Yew (SIN,34) 21-15 15-21 10-21

[R1] (8) Saina Nehwal (IND,8) bye
[R1] (5) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,5) bye

[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) bt Thom Gicquel (FRA)/ Ronan Labar (FRA) 21-13 21-13
[R1] Arjun M.R. (IND)/ Ramchandran Shlok (IND) bt Tobias Kuenzi (SUI)/ Oliver Schaller (SUI) 21-14 21-16
[R1] Arun George (IND)/ Sanyam Shukla (IND) l Takuto Inoue (JPN)/ Yuki Kaneko (JPN) 18-21 11-21

[R1] Jakkampudi Meghana (IND)/ Poorvisha S Ram (IND) bt Diana Corleto Soto (GUA)/ Nikte Alejandra Sotomayor (GUA) 21-10 21-18
[R1] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) bt Ching Hui Chang (TPE)/ Ching Tun Yang (TPE) w/o
[R1] Pooja Dandu (IND)/ Sanjana Santosh (IND) l Ya Ching Hsu (TPE)/ Ling Fang Hu (TPE) 15-21 14-21

[R2] Prannoy H. S. (IND,30) bt (11) Lin Dan (CHN,17) 21-11 13-21 21-7
[R2] (16) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,19) bt Dong Keun Lee (KOR,39) 21-16 21-15
[R2] (7) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,10) vs Misha Zilberman (ISR,44)

[R2] (5) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,5) vs Yu Po Pai (TPE,45)

[R2] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) vs (6) Cheng Kai Han (CHN)/ Hao Dong Zhou (CHN)
[R2] Arjun M.R. (IND)/ Ramchandran Shlok (IND) vs (16) Cheng Liu (CHN)/ Nan Zhang (CHN)

[R2] Jakkampudi Meghana (IND)/ Poorvisha S Ram (IND) vs (8) Shiho Tanaka (JPN)/ Koharu Yonemoto (JPN)
[R2] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) vs (7) Yue Du (CHN)/ Yin Hui Li (CHN)

[R3] Prannoy H. S. (IND,30) vs (1) Kento Momota (JPN,1)

[Sin Hombre]

All 3 men won their R2 and are now in the last 16 (at least at par with seedings).

Next up for HSP is a very high hurdle in #1 Momota.

BSP has rising Indonesian star Ginting (#8)

Srikanth has slightly lower ranked Thai Wangcharoen (#15).

PVS and Saina are also into the last 16. PVS has Beiwen Zhang (#10), a very tricky opponent, and Saina has #12 Blichfeldt.

As per rankings, 3/5 should make quarters but unrealistic on current form.


With Satwik missing, no doubles pairs made it to the last 16.

[jaydeep]

Complete score.

At TOTAL BWF World Championships 2019, Basel, Switzerland (Grade 1 - Individual Tournaments)

[R2] (7) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,10) bt Misha Zilberman (ISR,44) 13-21 21-13 21-16

[R2] (8) Saina Nehwal (IND,8) bt Soraya De Visch Eijbergen (NED,72) 21-10 21-11
[R2] (5) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,5) bt Yu Po Pai (TPE,45) 21-14 21-15

[R2] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) l (6) Cheng Kai Han (CHN)/ Hao Dong Zhou (CHN) 16-21 19-21
[R2] Arjun M.R. (IND)/ Ramchandran Shlok (IND) l (16) Cheng Liu (CHN)/ Nan Zhang (CHN) 14-21 13-21

[R2] Jakkampudi Meghana (IND)/ Poorvisha S Ram (IND) l (8) Shiho Tanaka (JPN)/ Koharu Yonemoto (JPN) 8-21 18-21
[R2] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l (7) Yue Du (CHN)/ Yin Hui Li (CHN) 20-22 16-21

[R3] (16) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,19) vs (6) Anthony Sinisuka Ginting (INA,8)
[R3] (7) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,10) vs (12) Kantaphon Wangcharoen (THA,15)

[R3] (8) Saina Nehwal (IND,8) vs (12) Mia Blichfeldt (DEN,12)
[R3] (5) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,5) vs (9) Beiwen Zhang (USA,10)

[suresh]

The business end of the world championship begins. R3 is PQF and hopefully, we do well in this round.

[arjun2761]

Nice wins for Praneeth and Sindhu in R-3/PQF. Predictable losses for Srikanth and Prannoy. Hopefully, Saina can get us our 3rd win of the day....

[depleter]

If only INA coach mulyo stayed with India. He is doing wonders in Singapore now.

[jaydeep]

Scores ....................

At TOTAL BWF World Championships 2019, Basel, Switzerland (Grade 1 - Individual Tournaments)

[R3] Prannoy H. S. (IND,30) l (1) Kento Momota (JPN,1) 19-21 12-21
[R3] (16) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,19) bt (6) Anthony Sinisuka Ginting (INA,8) 21-19 21-13
[R3] (7) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,10) l (12) Kantaphon Wangcharoen (THA,15) 14-21 13-21

[R3] (8) Saina Nehwal (IND,8) l (12) Mia Blichfeldt (DEN,12) 21-15 25-27 12-21
[R3] (5) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,5) bt (9) Beiwen Zhang (USA,10) 21-14 21-6

[QF] (16) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,19) vs (4) Jonatan Christie (INA,4)

[QF] (5) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,5) vs (2) Tzu Ying Tai (TPE,2)

[Sin Hombre]

Really bad loss for Saina. She never loses to such players and in this fashion.

We can take out Srikanth completely from the OG 2020 projections table now (even from the "no-hopers"). He has an uphill climb to qualify at this point, and he is unable to beat any top-20 player these days and tbh he is not even competing against them.

Srikanth is 10k points behind Prannoy and at least 12k points behind BSP after this tournament.

Saina will need to play more tournaments than she would like over the next 7 months to guarantee qualification as well.


Our proud run of medal-ing 9 years in a row will be severely tested tomorrow. Both our players are underdogs.

[SaniaFan]

I think Praneeth has better chance

[depleter]

Our proud run of medal-ing 9 years in a row will be severely tested tomorrow. Both our players are underdogs.

And both of them have a medal now!!!!

[SaniaFan]

Yes, Both won. Praneeth more easily. But for next one Sindhu has better chance. In fact, Sindhu has a very good chance to go all the way. Praneeth does not have much chance but he should play as aggressively and freely as he has played so far.