Star Indian shuttler HS Prannoy beat All England Championships finalist Shi Yu Qi of China to storm into the boys’s singles pre-quarterfinals on the Swiss Open Super 300 badminton match.
World quantity 9 Prannoy continued his good run as he recovered from a second sport hunch to notch up a 21-17 19-21 21-17 win over Shi Yu Qi, who’s a 2018 world championships silver medallist, in the boys’s singles opening spherical.
Two-time Olympic medallist and fourth seed PV Sindhu too made a optimistic begin to her title defence, beating Jenjira Stadelmann of Switzerland 21-9 21-16 in a lop-sided opening spherical of girls’s singles.
Prannoy will subsequent face France’s Christo Popov, whereas Sindhu will tackle 20-year-old Indonesian Putri Kusuma Wardani, who was a part of the gold medal-winning group of the 2022 Asia Team Championships.
Also in motion on Thursday can be Kidambi Srikanth in opposition to Hong Kong’s Lee Cheuk Yiu. National champion Mithun Manjunath takes on Chia Hao Lee of Chinese Taipei and second-seeded males’s pairing of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will face Taiwanese pair of Fang-Chih Lee and Fang-Jen Lee.
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