Date:03/10/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/10/03/stories/2008100358202200.htm

Sport - Badminton

Kashyap, Bhat, Anand advance

New Delhi: The Indian trio of P. Kashyap, Arvind Bhat and Chetan Anand sailed into the third round of the Bitburger Open badminton tournament at Saarbruecken in Germany on Thursday.

Seventh seed Arvind defeated Martin Bille Larsen of Denmark 21-15, 21-7, while fourth seed Anand pipped his German rival Sebastian Rduch 21-15, 21-14 and 16th seed Kashyap beat Dieter Domke of Germany 21-17, 21-19.

However, qualifier Sourabh Verma lost to 12th seed Bjrn Joppien of Germany 21-6, 21-18.

In women’s doubles, the second-seeded Indian pair of Jwala Gutta and Shruti Kurian were upset 15-21, 18-21 by Germany’s Johanna Goliszewski and Gitte Khler in the first round.

The men’s doubles pair of Rupesh Kumar and Sanave Thomas also failed to make the quarterfinals, going down 19-21 21-15 17-21 to fifth seed German pair of Michael Fuchs and Ingo Kindervater. — PTI