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Olympic: Kashyap gives India winning start; Jwala-Diju lose
Saturday July 28, 2012 06:54:07 PM,
IANS
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London: Parupalli Kashyap gave India its first win
in badminton while the mixed doubles pair of V. Diju and Jwala
Gutta went down in their opening group match of the London
Olympics at the Wembley Arena here Saturday.
Olympic debutant Kashyap beat Yuhan Tan of Belgium in straight
games in the men's singles. Kashyap won 21-14, 21-12 in 38
minutes. It was the Indian's second win over Yuhan in three
encounters.
The 25-year-old Kashyap took a seven point lead early in the first
game only to give away a few. However, the nippy shuttler kept the
score-line ticking and sealed the game with his second game point.
The Indian, ranked World No.21, played the second game with
authority as he romped to a 12-point lead and easily sealed the
game 21-12 in 14 minutes.
The Hyderabadi next faces World No.11 and 10th seed Nguyen Tien
Minh of Vietnam. Kashyap will need to beat Minh, against whom the
Indian has a 2-3 head-to-head record, to advance into the knockout
stages.
Earlier, Diju and Jwala could not put up a fight against
Indonesia's Tontowi Ahmad and Liliyana Natsi and lost their mixed
doubles opening group match.
The Indian pair was thrashed 16-21, 12-21 by the third seeds in 27
minutes in their Group C match. This was their second consecutive
loss to the Indonesian pair, after last year's French Open.
Diju and Jwala will need to win their next two group matches to
qualify for the knockouts which begin Wednesday. Only two of the
four teams will qualify for the quarter-finals from each of the
four groups.
The Indian World No.13 pair will next face Thomas Laybourn and
Kamilla Rytter Juhl of Denmark Sunday whom they have never beaten
in their two meetings yet.
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