Indian star shuttlers PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth superior to the singles quarterfinals of the Madrid Spain Masters badminton match with straight-game wins on Thursday. While Sindhu defeated Putri Kusuma Wardani of Indonesia, Srikanth beat compatriot B Sai Praneeth.
Two-time Olympic medallist, Sindhu dispatched Putri Kusuma Wardani 21-16 21-14 in a little bit over half an hour recreation and entered her first quarterfinal within the yr 2023. Srikanth, however, pulled off a 21-15 21-12 second-round win over B Sai Praneeth.
Since Sindhu returned after recovering from harm, she has been struggling for type throughout this season. It is the primary time in 2023 that the 27-year-old former world champion has crossed the second spherical. She will tackle 25-year-old Danish Mia Blichfeldt within the final eight stage of the Super 300 match.
Srikanth who’s seeded fifth will face former world No. 1 is pitted towards prime seed Kenta Nishimoto of Japan within the thrilling quarterfinals. Nishimoto was handed a walkover by France’s Arnaud Merkle of their second-round contest.
When it comes to different Indians within the competitors, Kiran George and Priyanshu Rajawat crashed out of the boys’s singles occasion after struggling second-round defeats. While George suffered a loss to Denmark’s Magnus Johannesen 17-21 12-21 in 31 minutes, Rajat was outplayed 14-21 15-21 by Toma Junior Popov of France.
Aakarshi Kashyap, Ashmita Chaliha Malvika Bansod, and Sameer Verma are set to play their second-round matches. The males’s and girls’s doubles pair of MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila and Sikki Reddy and Arathi Sara Sunil may even be in motion.
(Inputs from PTI)
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