Thomas and Uber Cup: India hammer Australia; Malaysia, Denmark win (Lead)
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Thomas and Uber Cup: India hammer Australia; Malaysia, Denmark win (Lead)
Bangkok May 21 (IANS) After going down to Canada in their opening match the India women s badminton team came all guns blazing on Monday to thrash Australia 4-1 in the second group match of the Thomas and Uber Cup here on Monday.
Barring the women s doubles match the Indian team led by ace shuttler Saina Nehwal won all their matches.
Saina kicked off the proceedings with a straight game win over Hsuan-Yu Wendy Chen. She outclassed her opponent 21-14 21-19 in the 35-minute opening match and provide India a 1-0 lead.
However Australia equalised the issue in the women s doubles affair as Gronya Somerville and Renuga Veeran defeated Meghana Jakkampudi and Poorvisha S Ram 21-13 21-16 within half an hour.
In an another women s singles match Vaishnavi Reddy Jakka bought back India in the contest as she hammered Jennifer Tam 21-17 21-13.
Later another women s pair comprising Sanyogita Ghorpade and Prajakta Sawant extended India s lead by beating Louisa Ma and Ann-Louise Slee 21-19 21-11 in the second doubles match.
19-year-old Anura Prabhudesai finally sealed the issue for India 4-1 as she got the better of Zecily Fung 21-6 21-7 in just 18 minutes.
India will now face top seeds from Japan on Wednesday.
In other clashes of the day Japan s women and Malaysia s and China s men s teams all secured 5-0 victories in the tournament reported Efe.
Japan s women repeated the dominating scoreline from their opening win against Australia on Sunday as their Canadian opponents barely laid a glove on them.
Nzonomi Okuhara had the toughest outing as she dispatched Michelle Li 21-16 21-17 while the other four matches two singles and two doubles were far more routine for the Japanese.
Malaysia s men won their first game in Group D at the Cup in similarly dominating fashion seeing off Russia with a minimum of fuss.
The first of the two doubles matches was a relatively close affair as the Malaysians ran out 21-18 21-19 winners.
Elsewhere in Group D Denmark opened their campaign with a crushing 5-0 defeat of Algeria in a match in which no game lasted more than half an hour.
China s Women followed up their male counterparts Sunday scoreline against Australia defeating France s women in five with the respective Men s line-ups slated for the evening session on Monday.
The BWF Thomas & Uber Cup in Bangkok runs until May 27.
--IANS kk/tri/vd
Barring the women s doubles match the Indian team led by ace shuttler Saina Nehwal won all their matches.
Saina kicked off the proceedings with a straight game win over Hsuan-Yu Wendy Chen. She outclassed her opponent 21-14 21-19 in the 35-minute opening match and provide India a 1-0 lead.
However Australia equalised the issue in the women s doubles affair as Gronya Somerville and Renuga Veeran defeated Meghana Jakkampudi and Poorvisha S Ram 21-13 21-16 within half an hour.
In an another women s singles match Vaishnavi Reddy Jakka bought back India in the contest as she hammered Jennifer Tam 21-17 21-13.
Later another women s pair comprising Sanyogita Ghorpade and Prajakta Sawant extended India s lead by beating Louisa Ma and Ann-Louise Slee 21-19 21-11 in the second doubles match.
19-year-old Anura Prabhudesai finally sealed the issue for India 4-1 as she got the better of Zecily Fung 21-6 21-7 in just 18 minutes.
India will now face top seeds from Japan on Wednesday.
In other clashes of the day Japan s women and Malaysia s and China s men s teams all secured 5-0 victories in the tournament reported Efe.
Japan s women repeated the dominating scoreline from their opening win against Australia on Sunday as their Canadian opponents barely laid a glove on them.
Nzonomi Okuhara had the toughest outing as she dispatched Michelle Li 21-16 21-17 while the other four matches two singles and two doubles were far more routine for the Japanese.
Malaysia s men won their first game in Group D at the Cup in similarly dominating fashion seeing off Russia with a minimum of fuss.
The first of the two doubles matches was a relatively close affair as the Malaysians ran out 21-18 21-19 winners.
Elsewhere in Group D Denmark opened their campaign with a crushing 5-0 defeat of Algeria in a match in which no game lasted more than half an hour.
China s Women followed up their male counterparts Sunday scoreline against Australia defeating France s women in five with the respective Men s line-ups slated for the evening session on Monday.
The BWF Thomas & Uber Cup in Bangkok runs until May 27.
--IANS kk/tri/vd
