Badminton: Bhat in China Open quarters

Indian shuttler Arvind Bhat reached the men’s singles quarter-final of the China Open Super Series defeating Peter Koukal of the Czech Republic even as Saina Nehwal’s campaign in women’s doubles ended in Shanghai on Thursday.

Bhat fought back from a game down to beat Koukal 18-21, 21-18, 21-15 in the second round.

Sania, who lost her singles match in the opening round on Wednesday, had partnered Canadian Anna Rice in doubles.

The unseeded duo went down 13-21, 11-21 to fourth-seeded Jung Eun HA and Min Jung Kim in the second round.

Badminton:Arvind and Kashyap lose in French Super Series

Arvind Bhatt, P Kashyap and Aditi Mutatkar fell by the wayside as Indian shuttlers made a disappointing start in their French Super Series campaign in Paris on Wednesday.

Unseeded Arvind was no match for top seeded Chong Wei Lee of Malaysia, who took just 26 minutes for a 21-14, 21-3 victory in the first round of the men’s singles, while Kashyap was shown the door by Chinese Yi Lu, losing 8-21, 16-21 in 34 minutes.

The only Indian in the women’s singles, Aditi also met with the same fate. However, she gave a tough fight to third seed Mi Zhou of Hong Kong before losing 21-17, 11-21, 9-21.

Badminton: Chetan Anand wins Bitburger Open, V Diju and Jwala Gutta win mixed doubles

Here is something that would warm the hearts of every Indian. Chetan Anand has won the Bitburger open being held in Germany. In the process, he has become the first Indian to win a Grand Prix tournament. The icing on the cake was it was an all Indian Final, with the other finalist being Arvind Bhat from India. While this might take of some sheen off, the win nevertheless is a whammo for Indian Badminton. The final score read 23-25, 24-22, 23-21

Even better was the win of V Diju and Jwala Gutta in the mixed doubles. So there we are with 2 titles in a single tournament. They defeated Joachim Fischer Nielsen and Christinna Pedersen of Denmark. The final score read 8-21, 21-17, 22-2.

Badminton- Indians in 3rd round of Bitburger Open Tournament

Three Indians have entered into the 3rd round of the Bitburger Open in Germany. The trio of Arvind Bhat, P Kashyap nad Chetan Anand have entered into the 3rd round of the Open being held at Saarbruecken in Germany.

Arvind won against Martin Bille Larsen of Denmark 21-15 21-7 in just 25 minutes
Chetan pipped his German rival Sebastian Rduch 21-15 21-14 in a contest, lasting 24 minutes.
Kashyap beat Dieter Domke of Germany 21-17 21-19 in his second round match

Aditi Mutatkar, defeated German Mette Stahlberg 21-12 21-8 in the first round yesterday

Rest of the Indians in the fiels folded up .

Indian pair of Jwala Gutta and Shruti Kurian were upset in the first round as they suffered a 15-21 18-21 bashing by German duo of Johanna Goliszewski and Gitte Khler.

Rupesh K T Kumar and Sanave Thomas went down 19-21 21-15 17-21 to fifth seed German pair of Michael Fuchs and Ingo Kindervater.