Sourabh Verma vs Lee Cheuk Yiu Live Score and Commentary New Zealand Open Quarter-finals

Lee beats Verma, 21-19, 21-16

Updated: 04 August 2017 12:26 IST - Published: 04 August 2017 11:20 IST

Lee wraps up the match, 21-19, 21-16

Sourabh saves one...16-20

And the Hong Kong ace reaches match points at 20-15

Lee is now two points away from the win at 19-15

He gets one point for 14-18

Does Verma have it in him to push one last time? The current situation doesn't seem to suggest so

18-13 for Lee

The gap is slowly increasing now....it is 16-11 for the World No. 88 now.

And Lee extends it to 14-10

After the break, it is 13-9 for Lee...not much change of fortunes for either.

And, in a repeat of the first game, Lee leads 11-6 at half-time.

Lee up to 10-6

And once more, Sourabh is not able to hold on to his momentum....he lets the Hong Kong player push ahead to 8-4

But Verma manages to regroup and get two consecutive points for 4-5

And Lee races ahead to 5-2. Time is running out for Sourabh here.

SECOND GAME

Again Lee makes the better start of the two. It's 2-1

Too near, yet so far for Verma! Can he push that setback aside and focus on getting the second game?

Lee bags the opener, 21-19

Lee dashes Verma's hopes to get to game points...20-18

And it is back to 18-18

And the World No. 37 is in THE LEAD now!!! Sourabh is up 18-17

And after a LONG RALLY, Verma is back! 16-16

And once more, Verma roars back to 15-16...pretty close now!

It's still a TWO-POINT gap. Lee ahead at 16-14

Lee halts the Verma comeback and goes up to 15-13.