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

October 13, 2008

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.


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