India’s 25 year old Mouma Das was the player to upset the seeding in the Women’s Singles event at the Commonwealth Championships in Glasgow on Sunday 24th May 2009.

At the quarter-final stage she gave an outstandingly brave performance to overcame fourth seeded Australian, Miao Miao, to book her place in the penultimate round

It was a contest in which the mental abilities of the Indian star were tested to the full.

She won the first three games, was on the brink of a straight games victory, before Miao Miao recovered to win three games in a row to level matters.

Strong Mentally
The chance of success for Mouma Das appeared to have diminished, having lost nail-biting fourth and sixth games.

However, in the decisive seventh game, she stiffened the sinews, summoned up the blood and emerged successful to the delight of her assembled supporters.

Style
A hard fought contest with the Indian able answer with interest the fast attacks of the Australian who style, using short pimpled rubber on both sides of the racket, had caused prior adversaries a whole host of problems.

Round Two
Certainly it was a fine performance by the Indian who one round earlier had been in equally fine form, defeating Canada’s Zhang Mo in an equally gruelling seven games encounter one round earlier.

No Headaches
Disappointment for the fourth seed but there were no such headaches for the top three seeded players, all from Singapore.

Wang Yue Gu overcame Northern Ireland’s Liu Na and England’s Joanna Parker to book her place in the semi-finals whilst, Sun Bei Bei proved too fast for Naomi Owen of Wales and Beh Lee Wei of Malaysia to reserve her place in the penultimate round.

Not to be overshadowed, third seed, Yu Meng Yu, was equally in unforgiving form. She accounted for India’s Poulomi Ghatak in round two and England’s Kelly Sibley at the quarter-final stage.

Semi-Finals
In the semi-finals Wang Yue Gu meets Mouma Das whilst Sun Bei Bei confronts Yu Meng Yu.

Image by Ian Watson