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What a great day for the Verma family! If the brothers win their respective semi-finals, they can meet each other in the final.
Zwiebler tried his best to curb Sourabh's confidence but the Indian was unstoppable. With a superb display of attacking shots and a calm head, the Indian dashed all hopes of Zwiebler as he upset the third seed for a 21-15, 16-21, 21-15 win. The match lasted 51 minutes.
And it is the German who now heads to the interval with an 11-10 lead.
But Zwiebler once more has got a second wind and has levelled the scores at 10-10.
The initial stages of the third game appear to be in Sourabh's control who now leads 9-6.
Varma could not do much. This is every bit Zwiebler's game! The German forces a decider by taking the second game, 21-16
Varma is trying hard to fight back. With some resilient show, he has managed to make it quite close at 16-18.
*16-13
The roles have reversed! The German is now on a run of six straight points as he rushes to 16-10. Sourabh looks stunned at the moment. Can we see a decider?
Sourabh went ahead to 13-10 with some superb shotmaking. But he needs to be careful here. Zwiebler has reduced the deficit to 12-13.
The Indian is playing some aggressive badminton that helped him to get to 10-8. Even though the German closed the gap to 9-10, Varma still managed to lead 11-9 at the mid-game interval.
After maintaining the two-point lead at 7-5, Varma extends it further by soaring to 9-6.
Sourabh has started the second game on a grand note by jumping to a 5-3 lead. Can the experienced Zwiebler force a comeback in this match?
And it doesn't take long for Varma to clinch the opener, 21-15.
Zwiebler is trying to make a comeback but the confident Varma dashes all his hopes as he is now two points away from grabbing the opener at 19-14.
Varma is currently in the driver's seat as he has built up a huge lead of 16-12.
After the break, it's all square as the two are locked at 12-12 now.
Varma has taken a lead for the first time in this match as he surges to 9-8. He then adds another point to his kitty to march to 10-8 before ending the first half of the game at 11-10.
Verma levels the game with some strong display of attacking badminton, 5-5.
The early exchanges are hard-fought and it is Zwiebler who has a slender lead of 4-3.
The match will begin in a few minutes.
The two have never met before and this could be a pretty interesting showdown. Varma has come to this tournament on the back of winning the Chinese Taipei Masters last month.
Good evening, friends. We return once again with live scores and commentary from the Bitburger Open quarter-finals. Elder brother Sourabh Varma is looking to join younger brother Sameer in the semi-finals as he takes on the third seed Marc Zwiebler in today's quarter-final match.
That's all, folks! Thank you for joining us. We shall be back with live updates of the semi-finals tomorrow.,