BWF World Tour Finals Badminton 2018 | Sameer Verma vs Kento Momota

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It took the Japanese only 36 minutes to get the win.

After losing his focus towards the end of the first game, Momota didn't allow a repeat of that in the second.

Sameer should be encouraged by the display he put up in Game 1 and should look to get wins in his next two matches.

And Momota wraps this up easily!

It's a 21-18, 21-6 win for World No. 1 Kento Momota

Momota has raced ahead and has a host of match points.

20-6

Another four points to Momota.

This has been such a smooth sailing for Momota.

17-4

13-4 to Momota now as Sameer finds no answer to Momota.

11-2 to Momota at the time of the midgame interval.

Momota dashes to the net and gets yet another point.

Up 10-2

Momota is now cruising at 8-2

Momota has now raced ahead to 6-2

Momota picks up from where he left and opens up a 2-0 lead in Game 2.

Finally Momota goes for body smash and takes the first game 21-18

Some resilience from the Indian!

Sameer saves as many as four game points as Momota seemed to have gone off the boil a bit.

It's 20-14 now in favour of the Japanese.

Verma looks to have settled into the match finally. Building rallies more patiently now.

Verma now trails 13-18

Sameer takes four points but that hasn't been enough to prevent Momota from going up to 15-8

Momota builds an 11-4 lead at the time of the midgame interval.

This has been a smooth progress for the top-ranked player so far.

Up 9-4

Momota steadily keeps adding points and builds a 7-4 lead

Momota builds a two-point lead already.

Up 4-2

And the match has just started.

It's 1-1

Good morning and welcome to the Sportskeeda liveblog of Sameer Verma's match at the BWF World Tour Finals 2018. In his first match at the prestigious season-ender for which he has qualified for the first time in his career, Verma faces none other than the World No. 1 Kento Momota.

The two are tied 1-1 in their head-to-head record with Verma even winning their last encounter at the Swiss Open in February. However, a lot has changed in these intervening 10 months. The Japanese southpaw has gone on to dominate the BWF World Tour since then, winning as many as seven tournaments that includes the World Championships. It might be tough for Sameer now to find a way to break the Japanese's game but he would surely give quite a fight.

Stay tuned as we bring you live updates from this match.

BWF World Tour Finals 2018 Badminton Live: Sameer Verma vs Kento Momota Live score & Updates | 12th December 2018