Chennai Smashers vs Bengaluru Blasters Badminton Livescore and Commentary, PBL 2017

This was the first win of the PBL-2 for the Chennai Smashers

Adcock and Kolding's win means the Chennai team wins the tie, 5-0

Adcock and Kolding do it!!!!!! Deny the Bengaluru team a Trump win!

The Koreans have made it 11-11

And Adcock and Kolding are at a match point now, 11-10

And Chennai has erased all the deficit for 10-10

It is now 10-8 for the Bengaluru Blasters.

Chris Adcock cannot be kept in check for a long time. They have closed the gap to 7-9

Bengaluru Blasters hit the accelerator button to race to 6-2 at half-time.

In the decider, things are level so far at 2-2

The orange brigade have three match points and they convert one of them quickly for 11-7.

This looks to be heading to the decider.

Excellent all-court movement by both the teams. The Koreans are still up, 8-6

The Blasters are up 6-4 at the break.

The Koreans have come back hard at the Chennai team. Ko hitting his smashes hard to make life difficult for the Chennai duo. Up now 5-3

The Smashers are clearly enjoying themselves. And they have taken the opener, 11-7

Will Chris Adcock get his second win of the day?

The Chennai duo is currently up, 6-4

Remember the Blasters are playing for pride in this one. This is their Trump Match and a win will give them vital 2 points.

It is off to a competitive start, 3-3

*men's doubles

The last match of this tie is the mixed doubles. Chris Adcock teaming up with Mads Pieler Kolding against Ko Sung Hyun and Yoo Seong.

The score stands at 4-1 in favour of the Chennai Smashers.

Axelsen is the first player to defeat Sugiarto at the PBL

Sugiarto's shot lands wide. And Viktor takes, 11-7, 13-11

Axelsen got to match point but could not close out. 11-11

Axelsen comes back for 9-9

With a smash directed at Viktor, Tommy goes up 9-8

Viktor is looking really confident here, 8-8

With a roar, the Dane comes back to level at 7-7

The agile Tommy leads 6-4 at the break

And they are back on level terms, 4-4

Sensational rally!!!! Sugiarto retrieves well but Axelsen gets a point with a smash

Unforced errors galore for the Dane to start the second game with. He is down 1-3

Axelsen has grabbed the opener, 11-7

Sugiarto lost some steam after injuring his finger.

Viktor created an opening and went for the kill.9-7

Sugiarto has let the young Dane come back into this match, 7-7

Sugiarto, who was last edition's Male MVP, inches ahead 6-5 at the break

Axelsen comes up with wonderful net play for 4-3

Axelsen takes a 2-1 lead but makes a baseline error and it is 2-2

Next up is the men's singles match between Tommy Sugiarto and Viktor Axelsen.

And with that, Chennai get an unassailable lead of 4-0 which means they have wrapped up this tie!

The Adcocks WIN an absolute thriller!!!!

Service error for 14-14

As the Bengaluru team's shot lands wide, Chennai has another match point

13-13 wow as Chris finds the net

The Adcocks now have another match point.

And it is 12-12 WOW!!!!!

Now the Adcocks have a match point