Anand, Ajay out of German Open -2011

Anand Pawar & Ajay Jayaram of India, who had won their first rounds of the YONEX German Open Grand Prix Gold 2011, could not make any headway further as both of them went down fighting in their second round matches.

In the 2nd round, Anand Pawar was pitted against world. no.22 Zhengming Wang of China (who is possibly one of the most improved player since last year if we only go by his progress made in ranking, which has been from over 200 at the start of 2010 to the number 22 that he is today).

Wang defeated Anand Pawar 21-17, 21-18. I had a word about the match with Anand just some time back on good old facebook, and he said that Wang fought much better towards the end of the match.

On the other hand, Ajay Jayaram was up against qualifier Keigo Sonoda of Japan, who is making a mockery of world rankings and is having a great run in this tournament having defeated 16th seeded Carl Baxter in 2 straight sets yesterday.
Sonoda defeated Ajay Jayaram after a tough 3-setter fight and the final score read 17-21, 21-7, 21-14.

With Anand & Ajay out after the 2nd round, and Anup Sridhar, Aditya Elango & Aditi having crashed out of the tournament earlier, the Indian challenge at the German Open Grand Prix Gold-2011 has come to an end.

Coming up next is a tournament that has always been considered very prestigious in the history of world badminton. The All-England Open badminton championship. It is scheduled to be played from 8th to 13th Mar-2011.

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German Open 2011 - Opening Round Results for India

German Open- Anand, Ajay advance

German Open badminton - Opening Round Results for Indians:
Here are some quick updates from the German Open Grand Prix Gold-2011 badminton tournament.

Womens Singles - Qualifying Rounds:
Aditi Mutatkar is out of the German Open. She won her first match but lost the second one that was needed to get into the main draw.
Aditi Mutatkar  defeated Carola Bott (GER)  21-18, 21-14
Aditi Mutatkar lost to Kwan Yi Mong (HKG)   14-21, 13-21

Mens Singles - Main Draw:
Anand Pawar and Ajay Jayaram have advanced to the 2nd round. However Anup Sridhar & Aditya Elango are out of the tournament after losing the first round.

Anup Sridhar lost to Dieter Domke (GER)   12-21, 17-21
Aditya Elango lost to Jen Hao Hsu (TPE) 9-21, 15-21

Ajay Jayaram defeated Daren Liew (MAS)  15-21, 21-18, 21-18
Ajay will be playing against Kiego Sonoda [JPN] in the next round. Kiego has came through to the main draw by playing the qualifying rounds, and has defeated 16th seeded Carl Baxter of England in the first round.

Anand Pawar defeated Ivan Sozonov (RUS) 21-18, 21-17.
Anand will be playing against 8th seed Zhengming Wang of China in the next round.
Zhengming is currently ranked 22nd in the world.  He had an amazing run in year 2010 & this year. He had started with a ranking of 244 in first week of 2010, and today he is at 22! Impressive run indeed. would be interesting to see how Anand fares against him..anything is possible.

3-Mar-2011 update:
Anand, Ajay go down fighting in second round

German Open from 1st-6th March-2011

The Yonex German Open Grand Prix Gold 2011 will be played from 1st to 6th March 2011.

The Badminton Grand Prix are level 3 events, that rank just below the Super Series events. These Grand Prix events are individual badminton events where participants compete in the Singles (Men & Women) and Doubles (Mens, Women, and Mixed) events, but there is no team event at the Grand Prix.

Badminton Grand Prix and are comprised of two levels. The Grand Prix Gold, and the Grand Prix, the higher level being the Grand Prix Gold that offers more prize money to the winners.

Click here for more general information about the various levels of Badminton tournaments

The Grand Prix Gold being a premier badminton event, some of the world's best players will be seen in action at Germany. The Indians who will be in the fray at the German Open Grand Prix Gold -2011 are Aditi Mutatkar, Anand Pawar, Ajay Jayaram, Aditya Elango, and Anup Sridhar.

The first round draws for the Indian men are as below:

Anup Sridhar vs. Dieter Domke (Germany)
Ajay Jayaram vs. Daren Liew (Malaysia)
Aditya Elango vs. Jen Hao Hsu (Chinese Taipei)
Anand Pawar vs. Ivan Sozonov (Russia)

In the women's singles event, Aditi Mutatkar will be playing in the qualifiers, and she will have to win to qualifying rounds to get into the main draw. Aditi will be playing against local girl Carola Bott (Germany) in the first round.
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2-Mar Updates:
Anand Pawar & Ajay Jayaram have advanced to 2nd round. The other Indians are out of the tournament. Click link below for more information.
http://mybadmintonbook.blogspot.com/2011/03/german-open-anand-ajay-advance.html

3-Mar Updates:
Anand Pawar & Ajay Jayaram both went down fighting in the 2nd round. Cilck below link for more details.
http://mybadmintonbook.blogspot.com/2011/03/anand-ajay-out-of-german-open-2011.html

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