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Olympic badminton: Kashyap enters quarters, creates history
Wednesday August 01, 2012 05:51:17 PM,
IANS
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London: Shuttler
Parupalli Kashyap created history by becoming the first Indian
male player to enter the singles quarter-finals at Olympics,
defeating Sri Lankan Niluka Karunaratne in three games here.
Kashyap won a tough match 21-14, 15-21, 21-9, in one hour and six
minutes at the Wembley Arena. The previous best performance was by
Dipankar Bhattarcharjee in the 1992 Barcelona Games where he lost
the third round match to Chinese Zhao Jianhua.
It was a topsy-turvy match. To start with, Kashyap was rattled by
the Sri Lankan who attacked his way to a 6-1 lead. The Hyderabadi
fought back to make it 7-7 and the Sri Lankan World No.48 started
losing momentum.
Kashyap found his touch and quickly jumped to a 15-10 lead. There
were not many long rallies and with some imaginative returns he
progressed to 19-14. Then a couple of smart backhand flicks and
the first game was Kashyap's in 20 minutes.
Karunaratne, who earlier upset eighth seeded Kenichi Tago in his
group match, again took an 11-3 lead at the break. This time he
made sure he did not give his opponent a window to stage a
comeback. The World No.48 raced to gamepoint, making sure the
Indian had little chance of catching up (20-7).
Yet, Kashyap did not give up and fought back to reel off eight
points with some devil-may-care smashes, the most pleasing being
cross-court. The Sri Lankan eventually got the winning point to
take the match into a decider.
Midway through the game, the Sri Lankan was spoken to by the
umpire for his on-court antics after winning every point. His war
dance was missing in the decider.
It was a neck-and-neck fight for supremacy till 5-all in the third
game when Kashyap took off. With his court-craft and deft work at
the net, he steadily built up a handy lead (12-6).
From then on, there was no stopping the Pullela Gopichand protege
and Karunaratene could not keep pace with the Indian.
A stream of unforced errors by the Sri Lankan saw Kashyap racing
to a 16-7 lead and thereafter it was a matter of time before the
World No.21 raised his arms in triumph.
Kashyap now faces a tougher challenge in the last eight as he will
either meet top seed and Beijing Games silver medallist Lee Chong
Wei of Malaysia or Indonesian's World No.6 Simon Santoso.
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