I understand. She is pretty and we all like her to play maximum number of matches in a tournament Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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It would be a tough task I agree. Yet when checking her results this year she did not have any major wins but she is always close enough or pushing her opponents to a third set. At 22 only anything is possible. Obviously there is something to change if she wishes to be a top 5 player.
Country representatives in R2. 15 - CHN 11 - INA, JPN 9 - KOR, IND 7 - THA 6 - TPE 5 - MAS 3 - HKG 1 - USA, RUS, NED, FRA
ROUND OF 16 (01.00pm) => https://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=F9664872-E75D-49B5-82C9-D26712EF3C4C * MATCH HIGHLIGHTS * - Kidambi Srikanth (IND) v Khosit Phetpradab (THA) - Prannoy H.S. (IND) v Kenta Nishimotoo (JPN) - Parupalli Kashyap (IND) v Chou Tien Chen (TPE) - He Bing Jiao (CHN) v Sonia Cheah (MAS) - Saina Nehwal (IND) v Sayaka Takahashi (JPN) - Pornpawee Chochuwong (THA) v Sung Ji Hyun (KOR) - Gideon/Sukamuljo (INA) v Ou XY/Zhang N (CHN) - Li JH/Liu YC (CHN) v Lu CY/Yang PH (TPE) - Rankireddy/Shetty (IND) v Alfian/Ardianto (INA) - Du Y/Li YH (CHN) v Kim SY/Kong HY (KOR) - Lee SH/Shin SC (KOR) v Kititharakul/Prajongjai (THA) - Chang YN/Kim HR (KOR) v Fukushima/Hirota (JPN) - He JT/Du Y (CHN) v Faizal/Widjaja (INA) - Seo SJ/Chae YJ (KOR) v Jordan/Oktavianti (INA) - Rivaldy/Mentari (INA) v Wang YL/Huang DP (CHN) A number of men's singles opening round matches seize attention, Srikanth Kidambi needs to dig deep before overcomes the stubborn Chinese youngster Ren Peng Bo who has good offensive shots and anticipation to counter attack his opponent, the Indian contender has an edge to prevail in decisive moment, 21-13 / 17-21 / 21-19. Sai Praneeth also marches into second round, disappointing home favourite Kantaphon Wangcharoen, 17-21 / 21-17 / 21-15. Defending champion Kanta Tsuneyama outlasts Sourabh Verma in marathon match that involving many long rallies, 23-21 / 19-21 / 21-5. Another long duration battle notices promoted player from qualification, Indonesian Shesar Hiren Rhustavito vanquishes Frenchman Lucas Claerbout in 74 minutes of play, 23-21 / 20-22 / 21-13. Top names Chou Tien Chen, Lin Dan secure their last sixteen berth, the latter spent shorter time at court following his opponent Suppanyu Avihingsanon retired, 21-17 / 11-8. Reigning Olympic Champion Chen Long succumbs to Wang Tzu Wei, 12-21 / 18-21, keeping his substandard feat to complete unacceptable result of previous two weeks in Jakarta and Tokyo. No surprising outcome for women's singles discipline first day, Chen Yu Fei is too strong for the inexperienced An Se Young, the Chinese dictates the pace, constructing the rally that troubled An most times despite the Korean prodigy fought back in second game. Other seeded players clear first hurdle without so much problem except Sung Ji Hyun who losing concentration suddenly in 16-7 lead, luckily she could found back the rhythm to seal opening game, 22-20. Gregoria Mariska did better effort in second game despite slipped at the end of match, repeated problem that she should dealt with, 21-17. A contrast result for title-holders Kamura/Sonoda who sent packing very early here continuing their slump performance, lost to Korean qualifiers Choi SG/Seo SJ in rubber games. The world number three pairs look struggling in three tournaments they taking part, unconvincing sign towards World Championships perspective. Bad day for Malaysian mixed doubles squad in Bangkok, started with Chan/Goh couldn't tackle Indian combiantions Rankiraeddy/Ponnappa. Later on, Goh SH/Shevon Lai also Tan KM/Lai PJ as well defeated by Indonesian rivals, Faizal/Widjaja and Jordan/Oktavianti as well. Lower-half of draw is more engaging to follow that starring frontrunners Wang/Huang, home favourites Puavaranukroh/Taerattanachai and the on-fire two Indonesian pairs.
Happened to see that in G2 of the WD Du/Li vs Kim/Kong match at 16-14, the Chinese claimed the shuttle touched one of the KOR's head on the way out but the umpire said she didn't see it and refused to do anything despite the Chinese protest whilst the KOR player remained indifferent to it. Realizing the futility of their dispute, the Chinese decided to challenge the linecall but that was also disallowed by the umpire on grounds that it was too late as if they are allowed only to do one but not both. Maybe BWF should look into such a situation and come up with a viable solution to prevent a similar occurrence in future. Just a thought.
I guess some of the WC contestants just wanted to go easy here before the Basel world champs, not wishing to push themselves hard. I dunno, I should've thought two weeks rest is sufficient for the major event, just need to take care one's health.
