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Bangkok: Third seeded Indian shuttler B. Sai Praneeth defeated Indonesian fourth seed Jonatan Christie in the final to capture the men’s singles title in the $1,20,000 Thailand Open Grand Prix badminton championships here on Sunday.<\/p>\nBangkok: Third seeded Indian shuttler B. Sai Praneeth defeated Indonesian fourth seed Jonatan Christie in the final to capture the men’s singles title in the $1,20,000 Thailand Open Grand Prix badminton championships here on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Praneeth lost the first game 17-21 but came back strongly to take the next two games, 21-18, 21-19, respectively. The final lasted an hour and 11 minutes. It was world No.24 Praneeth’s second title of the year after his Singapore Open Superseries triumph in April.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old Indian showed a lot of composure and character right from the start despite getting a slow start. In the first game, he trailed 1-4 and equalised at the five-point mark and even took the lead.<\/p>\n
But Christie continued to attack and got a 14-11 lead but the Indian fought back to equalise at 14-all. However, Christie’s ploy of attacking to the left of Praneeth worked as he won the first game 21-17.<\/p>\n
In the second game, Praneeth caught a flying start, holding a 9-3 lead but Christie didn’t surrender and bagged six consecutive points to send a strong message to his rival.<\/p>\n
Then, they were involved in a see-saw game and in this hard-fought game, Christie showed signs of running out of gas, resulting in some poor serving. Praneeth stepped up to scavenge at this juncture and equalise with a 21-18 win.<\/p>\n
Christie regained his energy and raced to an 8-3 lead in the third game. A desperate Praneeth got into resurrection mode. He slowly clawed his way back into the game, aided by the over-aggression from the Indonesian, who played some wayward shots.<\/p>\n
Under pressure from Praneeth’s cross-court strokes, Christie allowed the Indian to be back on level terms at the nine-point mark. The Indonesian slowed the game down by slowing down the movement of the shuttle and this affected the Indian who was going all hammer and tong.<\/p>\n
The Indian, however, resorted to net-game which caused further problems for Indonesia, with Praneeth holding a 17-15 lead. Couple of poor service from Christie and coupled with poor net-game, allowed the Indian to take a 20-16 lead. The Indonesian then could only save two championship point, eventually losing 19-21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bangkok: Third seeded Indian shuttler B. Sai Praneeth defeated Indonesian fourth seed Jonatan Christie in the final to capture the men’s singles title in the $1,20,000 Thailand Open Grand Prix badminton championships here on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Praneeth lost the first game 17-21 but came back strongly to take the next two games, 21-18, 21-19, respectively. The final lasted an hour and 11 minutes. It was world No.24 Praneeth’s second title of the year after his Singapore Open Superseries triumph in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20899,1341,466,22234,5015],"class_list":["post-34938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-badminton-badminton","tag-b-sai-praneeth","tag-badminton","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-jonatan-christie","tag-thailand-open"],"yoast_head":"\n