Doulbes pair Ashwini Ponnappa-Tanisha Crasto in final
Second seeds Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto came up with a clinical display against third seeds Debora Jille and Cheryl Senen of the Netherlands to reach the women’s doubles final in the Yonex-Sunrise Guwahati Masters Super 100 Badminton tournament at the Nabin Chandra Bordoloi Indoor Stadium here today.
GUWAHATI: Second seeds Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto came up with a clinical display against third seeds Debora Jille and Cheryl Senen of the Netherlands to reach the women’s doubles final in the Yonex-Sunrise Guwahati Masters Super 100 Badminton tournament at the Nabin Chandra Bordoloi Indoor Stadium here today.
Ashwini and Tanisha, who also reached the finals of the Syed Modi International Super 300 tournament last week in Lucknow, defeated their Dutch opponents 21-12, 21-12.
The women’s doubles pair will be the only Indian representatives on the final day of competition after the host challenge ended in women’s singles and mixed doubles categories on Saturday.
In the women’s singles semi-final, Malvika Bansod went down 21-12, 21-14 against Thailand’s Lalinrat Chaiwan while the men’s doubles combination of R Ruban Kumar and Hariharan Amsakarunan lost to Chinese Taipei’s Lin Bing-Wei and Su Ching Heng 21-10, 21-19.
Earlier in the day, Tanisha teaming up with Dhruv Kapila had lost the mixed doubles semifinal against second seeds Hee Yong Kai Terry and Tan Wei Han Jessica of Singapore 21-18, 21-15.
However, the 20-year-old put that disappointment behind when she turned up for the women’s doubles semifinal and ably assisted her senior partner to reach their second consecutive summit clash.
The Dutch managed to keep pace with the Indians till 10-10 in the opening game before Ashwini and Tanisha bagged 11 of the next 13 points.
The second game was much more comfortable with the Indian combination always in the lead after bagging five straight points from 1-1.
The final day’s clashes will start on Sunday with the Mixed Doubles event from 12-00 noon. It will be followed by Women’s Singles, Men’s Singles, Women’s Doubles and Men’s Doubles.
Meanwhile Assam Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma, who is also the President of the Badminton Association of India, visited the Nabin Chandra Bordoloi Indoor Stadium today to watch high quality badminton action in the Guwahati Masters Super 100
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