New Delhi: Ace Indian shuttlers Saina
Nehwal, Chetan Anand and Arvind Bhat notched up contrasting
wins to advance to the second round of the singles events in
the China Super Series in Shanghai today.
Seventh seed Saina brushed aside Canadian Charmaine Reid
21-6 21-12 in 25 minutes in the women's singles.
In the men's singles, Chetan struggled past Valeriy
Atrachenkov of Ukraine 22-20 25-23 in a 35-minute battle,
while Arvind beat Korean Wan Ho Shon 21-18 21-16 in 39
minutes.
However, it was curtains for India in the doubles
category.
Indian men's doubles pair of Rupesh Kumar and Thomas
Sanave went down to Danish combo of Henriksen Kasper Faust and
Anders Kristiansen 19-21 12-21 in 34 minutes.
But it was Indian best doubles player Jwala Gutta, who
had the most disappointing day.
Jwala and V Diju couldn't go through the whole match and
retired after 17-minutes into the match, against Korean combo
of Baek Cheol Shin and Min Jung Kim when the score read 21-14
11-3 in the rivals favour.
Jwala and her partner Ashwini Ponnappa also did not turn
up in doubles event and gave a walk over to their eighth
seeded opponent Yu Chin Chien and Pei Rong Wang of Chinese
Taipei.
Bureau Report
First Published: Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 23:45