Friday, March 16, 2018

Badminton News

At $1M YONEX All England Open 2018, Birmingham, England (BWF World Tour Super 1000)

[QF] Prannoy H. S. (IND,16) l Yuxiang Huang (CHN,42) 22-20 16-21 21-23

[QF] (4) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt (7) Nozomi Okuhara (JPN,6) 20-22 21-18 21-18

[SF] (4) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) vs (2) Akane Yamaguchi (JPN,2)

Sindhu is in the semis with another memorable match against Okuhara ... After losing the first game Sindhu was down 16-18 in the second ... But Sindhu won next 5 points for winning the game ... In the third game, Sindhu was down 12-16 but she again showed her fighting spirit and won 9 points from next 11 points and completed the win ... Next, Sindhu is playing top Japanese girl, Akane Yamaguchi.

Prannoy also missed a huge opportunity of entering the semis of All England Open ... He lost in three games against Huang after winning the first game ... In the third game, Prannoy took an early control of the game, 10-3 ... Huang was reducing the lead but Prannoy was leading until 19-17 ... After that Huang put pressure on Prannoy and converted the 3rd match point.

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