Hello and welcome to our coverage of the very important day2 at the BWF Super 500 event in Thailand.
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Results for today – Singles
- Ashmita Lost Intanon 🇹🇭 | 10-21,15-21
- Srikanth Def Brice 🇫🇷 | 18-21,21-10,21-16
- Aakarshi Lost Li 🇨🇦 | 13-21,18-21
- Malvika Def Ulitina 🇺🇦 | 17-21,21-15,21-11
- Praneeth Lost Kantaphon 🇹🇭 | 12-21,13-21
- Saina Lost Kim 🇰🇷 | 21-11,15-21,17-21
- Sourabh Lost Toma 🇫🇷 | 20-22,12-21
- Sindhu Def Lam 🇺🇸 | 21-19,19-21,21-18
- Prannoy Lost Daren 🇲🇾 | 17-21,21-15,15-21
Its over for Prannoy. He loses 15-21 in third game
Prannoy fighting it out against Liew from 🇲🇾 lost first game 17-21 won the second one 21-15
Ashwini/Shikha have defeated local qualifiers Kittipak and Prinda 21-12,21-17
Sindhu Wins the final Game.
Sindhu leads 12-9 in final game, should close it now
On court one Ashwini and Shikha have won the first game 21-12 against local pair of Kittipak/Prinda. They might just become the first Indian pair to register a victory
PVS has lost the second game 19-21 and we are in for decider
Sindhu wins the first game 21-19 against Lam. Much closer scoreline to what she would have liked
Another man who is clearly struggling is Kento Momota he lost to Zhao in straight games 8-21,11-21
Sourabh Verma showed some fight in the first game but was shown the door by Toma Popov 20-22,12-21 for Sourabh
Sai Praneeth has lost his match against Kantaphon in straight games 12-21,13-21. He is clearly out of form
Sourabh Verma has lost the first game 20-22 against 20-22
Ishaan and Tanisha have got a bye in the first round but they will be up against WR14 Malaysian pair Goh/Lai in second round.
Sai Praneeth finding it too difficult against Kantaphon who himself has been struggling for form. So its like who from the Not-So-Good form will win this. Currently its advantage Kantaphon
Juhi/Venkat have also lost in first round 15-21,11-21 to Indonesian pair Sumanti/ Hediana
And Saina Nehwal loses 21-11,15-21,17-21
Infact now three courts have Indians playing. Sai vs Kantaphon and Venkat/Juhi vs Sumanti/Julimarbela and Saina
Its 6-all in third
Kim has won the second game 21-15 to take this into decider
Saina has won the first game relatively easily while they were tied up 8-all Saina just took her game notches above to close the first in her favor 21-11
Saina Nehwal on the Court now
She is up against Ga Eun Kim from 🇰🇷. Ga Eun has wins over Chen Yu Fei and Okuhara so this should be a tough contest for Saina
Malvika Wins, Moves into Round2
Malvika leads 16-10 in the decider, make that 17-10. Beautiful game so far by her after losing the first game. Wins 21-11
Malvika wins the second game 21-15 so we are in the decider now
Malvika has wins over Yue Han, Saina, Aakarshi this year
A big update is that An SeYoung has lost to 22 ranked Christophersen 🇩🇰. The winner of Malvika Ulitina will meet her in second round
Malvika lost the first game 17-21 against Ulitina from Ukraine 🇺🇦 . They both are similar ranked players but clearly Ulitina is more experienced
And they lose 17-21,17-21 to Eighth seed Yuki and Misaki
Ashwini/Sumeeth are on the court now. They lost the first game 17-21 and are level in the second game at 13-all
Aakarshi lost to Li 13-21,18-21. A match which was always going to be difficult for the Indian
In another match Anees and Raju lost the mixed doubles match against Japanese pair of Yamashita Shinoya 12-21,13-21
Next up is Aakarshi Kashyap. She lost the first game to Michelle Li 13-21 and trails 0-2 in the second
Srikanth Wins, moves to next round
Srikanth won the second game 21-10 and leading third 20-16
First up are Srikanth vs Leverdez on Court2 & Ashmita vs Intanon on Court1
Ashmita Loses to Intanon
Ashmita has lost the control and now trails 13-14 while Srikanth leads 15-7. Ashmita puts one wide to give the match to Intanon 10-21,15-21
Wohoo. Ashmita is leading 11-7 in second game. Can she take this one to decider. On the other court Srikanth leads 10-3
Srikanth has lost the first game 18-21. Come-on you cant do that Sri
Ashmita loses the first game 10-21, pretty much going Intanon way who had just recently defeated Sindhu in Uber Cup
Ashmita is trailing 8-15 in the first game while Srikanth is leading 12-10
Srikanth who has been in sublime form and is yet to lose a match in Impact Arena in this trip is seeded eighth here and is up against French Brice who is WR39. Sri enjoys a 4-0 H2H
Ashmita WR65 is up against Intanon WR8 which is going to be a very tough encounter for the Indian. 5-7. Ashmita has come through the Qualifying in the tournament
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