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Chetan, Trupti crash out

Rupesh & Sanave advance

KUALA LUMPUR: Chetan Anand and Trupti Murgunde bowed out after losing their first round singles matches in the World Badminton championships on Tuesday.

National champion Anand put up a brave front against ninth seed Sony Dwi Kuncoro of Indonesia but went down 11-21, 21-14, 21-18. Murgunde lost to Pui Yin Yip of Hong Kong 21-17 21-13.

The only Indian win on Tuesday came through the men’s doubles pair of Rupesh Kumar and Sanave Thomas who beat France’s Svetoslav Stoyanov and Mihail Popov 21-9, 21-15.

Peter Gade, the only European considered capable of standing up to the Chinese juggernaut, also moved into the second round after a tough 21-18, 21-10 workout against England’s Andrew Smith.

The results (prefix denotes seeding): First round: Men: Andrew Dabeka (Can) def Vladislav Druchenko (Ukr) 16-21, 21-18, 21-16; 14-Park Sung Hwan (Kor) bt Jeff Tho (Aus) 21-14, 21-6; Bjoern Joppien (Ger) bt Paul Must (Est) 21-12, 21-11; 6-Chen Yu (Chn) bt John Moody (Nzl) 21-13, 21-11; Yousuke Nakanishi (Jpn) bt Christian Boesiger (Sui) 21-11, 14-21, 21-8; 11-Ronald Susilo (Sin) bt Alistair Casey (Sco) 22-20, 21-12; Md. Roslin Hashim (Mas) bt Magnus Sahlberg (Swe) 21-17, 21-9; 3-Chen Jin (Chn) bt Marco Vasconcelos (Por) 21-9, 21-5; Pablo Abian (Esp) bt Luka Petric (Slo) 21-9, 29-27; 16-Simon Santoso (Ina) bt Nguyen Tien Minh (Vie) 20-22, 21-11 21-19; Yan Kit Chan (Hkg) bt Jan Frohlich (Cze) 21-15, 21-9; 5-Peter Gade (Den) bt Andrew Smith (Eng) 21-18, 21-10; 9-Sony Dwi Kuncoro (Ina) bt Chetan Anand (Ind) 11-21, 21-14, 21-18; Richard Vaughan (Wal) bt Erwin Kehlhoffner (Fra) 21-9, 22-20; Eric Pang (Ned) bt Sergey Ivlev (Rus) 21-15, 21-6.

Women: Eva Lee (USA) bt Martina Benesova (Cze) 21-15, 21-8; 13-Juliane Schenk (Ger) bt Kristina Ludikova (Cze) 21-16, 21-10; Judith Meulendijks (Ned) bt Hye Youn Hwang (Kor) 21-10, 21-12; 9-Petya Nedeltcheva (Bul) bt Weny Rahmawati (Fr a) 21-18, 21-8; 7-Lu Lan (Chn) bt Xing Aiying (Sin) 21-9 21-15; Larisa Griga (Ukr) bt Eva Sladekova (Svk) 21-10, 21-5; 14-Kaori Mori (Jpn) bt Jill Pittard (Eng) 21-13, 21-16; Jang Soo Young (Kor) bt Miriam Gruber (Aut) 21-5, 21-9; Adriyanti Firdasari (Ina) bt Maja Tvrdy (Slo) 20-22, 21-12, 21-6; Rachel Hindley (Nzl) bt Ragna Ingolfsdottir (Isl) 22-20, 21-17; 11-Yip Pui Yin (Hkg) bt Trupti Murgunde (Ind) 21-17, 21-13; Anna Rice (Can) bt Kati Tolmoff (Est) 21-14, 21-14; 5-Zhu Lin (Chn) bt Susan Hughes (Sco) 21-7, 21-14; 10-Mew Choo Wong (Mas) bt Simone Prutsch (Aut) 21-10, 21-9; Ekaterina Ananina (Rus) bt Karen Foo Kune (Mri) 21-4, 21-9; Ana Moura (Por) bt Yoana Martinez (Esp) 18-21, 21-11, 21-9. — Agencies

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