P Kashyap beat No.8 Son Wan Ho 21-11, 21-14 in a 37-minute game. (Source: File Photo)By: Express News Service | Mumbai |
? Both Kidambi Srikanth and Ginting Anthony reached their career high rankings on Thursday.
? At No.3 in the world, the Indian went a notch better than his coach P Gopichand in rankings, the highest for an Indian in 30 years through a complex process that adds, subtracts bulk numbers as shuttlers defend and lose points each circuitous week.
? Having climbed his personal ascent, Srikanth promptly burst the bubble with a self stabbing that saw him go to Jakarta for a Premier Super Series and lose to Ginting Anthony, a rookie Indonesian who would�ve done a little whoop at hiking upto a career high World No. 166 after pitstops at shuttle�s outposts like Bahrain and Kuching.
? The 54-minute ouster in Round 2 against the 19-year-old rank unknown as the second set turnover cost the Indian the match, is the sort of inconsistency that is dogging the top crop of men�s singles shuttlers after Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei have left the top echelons.
? The day�s flux also witnessed Korean Son Wan Ho go down to Parupalli Kashyap in a brief 37-minute 21-11, 21-14 match.
? The Korean, ranked No. 8, was until last week in the top-5, and had only six months ago beaten Chinese top ranked Chen Long in straight sets.
? Ever since that glorious outing at Hong Kong where he scalped No.1 and 2 on consecutive days to win the title, the Korean has seen a freefall on the pro circuit, betraying brittleness in his form and fitness.
? The Indian 28-year-old has comfortably beaten the Korean twice in the last few months, though his pre-quarter win in Indonesia could be seen as revenge claimed for the defeat at the Sudirman Cup last month.
? Kashyap meets top-seed Chen Long in the quarters on Friday, with the only other Indian keeping him company being Saina Nehwal who sets up a repeat clash with Chinese fifth seed Shixian Wang in the last-8 like last week at Australia.
? The Indian who lost her top spot in Thursday�s rankings to Chinese Xuerui Li after dropping two places to World No 3, was her usual reassured self swatting aside Taipei�s Hsu Ya Ching 21-13, 21-15 in 36 minutes.
? The two have traded wins in the last few years and are 6-6 in career head-to-head, but Nehwal would love to stem the reverses that she�s faced in the last one year against an opponent who was the easier of the Chinese to beat in her early years.
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