New Delhi: Vladimir Ivanov and Marc Zwiebler starred in Mumbai Masters 3-2 win over Banga Beats which went down to the wires of the fifth match in the Indian Badminton League here on Thursday at the Siri Fort Sports Complex.
Ivanov started the proceedings by clinching the first match for Mumbai by beating Parupalli Kashyap. Then signed off on a winning note by teaming up with 19-year-old Siki Reddy to beat Mumbai's pair of Akshay Dewalkar and Aparna Balan 21-18, 21-19 in mixed doubles.
The 3-2 win ensured Mumbai of four points including the bonus point while Banga pocketed two points from their two wins.
In the first match, Banga's icon player Kashyap went down to Ivanov 18-21, 18-21. Kashyap started off the first game by taking a 12-9 lead but Ivanov sized up the Indian and pushed him on the backfoot on most occasions to clinch the game 21-18.
At the start of the second game, Kashyap like the first game raced ahead but at the end started to commit lot of unforced errors to give Ivanov a chance to bounce back and win the game 21-18.
But in the second match in the women's singles Tai Tzu Ying brought back Banga into contention by beating Tine Baun of Mumbai 21-17, 21-18. Ying's win over the former Denmark international helped Banga level the tie 1-1.
The win by Ying brought the spark back for Banga as the men's doubles duo of Carsten Mogensen and Akshay Dewalkar convincingly won the third match by routing Mumbai's pair of Pranav Jerry Chopra and Manu Attri 21-13, 21-12.
However, in the second men's singles of the evening - Hu Yun was the favourite to give Banga 3-1 lead, but Mumbai's Marc Zwiebler had other plans. The world No. 8 Yun claimed the first game 21-17 by playing some delightful cross-court forehand smashes and deceiving drop shots.
But in the second game, Yun relaxed a bit and Zweibler raised the ante to win it 21-17. The decider and the third game was a tight one in the first few points but after that Yun made lot of unforced errors, which allowed the world No. 12, Zwiebler to clinch it 11-6. With this win Mumbai brought level the tie to 2-2.
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