Badminton: Jwala Gutta wins doubles and Mixed doubles at Bulgarian Grand Prix

Jwala Gutta has won the doubles and mixed doubles at the Bulgarian Grand Prix at Sofia today.

Jwala paired with V Diju to win their consecutive Grand Prix title, defeating fifth seeded Indonesian pair of Fran Kurniawan and Shendy Puspa Irawati in the mixed double’s title.
The score read 15-21 21-18 21-19 in a 45-minute contest

The pair had won the Bitburger Grand Prix mixed doubles title in Saarbruecken, Germany last week, which catapulted them to World number 55 in the latest ranking.

Jwala later pared up with Shruti Kurian and defeated the 2nd seeded pair of Irawati and Meiliana Jauhari in straight-games .The score read 21-11 21-19 in a match that lasted 28 minutes.

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.