Thursday, March 24, 2011

Polish Open-2011: Arundhati, Aditya start well

Arundhati Pantawane and Aditya Prakash of India had a great start to their Polish Open-2011 campaign as they won all their rounds in the qualifying events of the badminton tournament to storm into the main draw of the women's singles and men's singles events respectively.

The Polish Open-2011 (35th Yonex Polish International Badminton Championship 2011) is being held at Podlaskie in Poland from 24th to 27th March.

In the first round of the main draw, Arundhati will now face the 2nd seeded Anastasia Prokopenko of Russia, who is currently ranked No.35 in the world. This will be one very tough match for Arundhati, but given the form Arundhati is in, anything looks possible, and if she can pull this off, she could even go all the way to the title.

While Arundhati Pantawane won all her qualifying rounds in straight sets, Aditya Prakash had to battle hard to get into the main draw. Both his matches went to 3-sets, but ultimately to his credit he prevailed over his opponents. Aditya will be playing against another qualifier Kim Bruun of Denmark in the first round of the main draw.

The other Indians in the main draw are Anand Pawar who is seeded 3rd in the men's singles, and former national badminton champion Sayali Gokhale, who has got a direct entry into the main draw of the Polish Open-2011.

35th Yonex Polish International Badminton Championships 2011 (Polish Open -2011)
1st round – Qual.
Arundhati
beat
Kamila Augustyn (Poland)
21-11, 21-11
2nd round – Qual.
Arundhati
beat
Kristine Sefere (Latvia)
21-16, 21-14
3rd round – Qual.
Arundhati
beat
Asumi Kugo (Japan)
21-8, 24-22





1st round – Qual.
Aditya


Bye
2nd round  -Qual.
Aditya
beat
Maciej Poulakowski (Poland)
21-8, 15-21, 21-10
3rd round – Qual.
Aditya
beat
Adrian Dziolko (Poland)
21-18, 16-21, 21-13


Arundhati Pantawane
Polish Open - 2011

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