Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu advanced to the quarter-finals while former winner Saina Nehwal crashed out of the India Open badminton championship that is reeling from withdrawals after seven players had to pull out on testing positive .
All about the tactics Published by : Emilie Sommer (BEC)
At 10am local time, the teams were ready to start the second day of the qualification for Group 6 in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal.
Ukraine vs Latvia
Yesterday both Ukraine and Latvia had some tough matches and this morning, the two teams faced each other for their second match in the qualification stage.
The Ukrainian mixed doubles, Danylo Bosniuk and Valeriya Rudakova, showed the Latvian players how it was done and in just 17 minutes, they had secured the first point for Ukraine.
Jekaterina Romanova fought with everything she had against Maria Ulitina in the women’s singles. The first and second game were very close, and the players won one game each. In the decider, Ulitina was too strong and she closed the last game without big problems.