India’s Lakshya Sen performs a shot. File.
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Double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu, in-form Lakshya Sen and Kidambi Srikanth produced spectacular performances to progress to the second round of the Swiss Open tremendous 300 badminton match right here on March 20.
Sindhu, who had claimed the title in 2022, beat Thailand’s Pornpicha Choeikeewong 21-12 21-13 to arrange a gathering with Japan’s Tomoka Miyazaki within the second round.
Sen, who had reached back-to-back semifinals at French Open and All England Championships within the final two weeks, outlasted Malaysia’s Leong Jun Hao 21-19 15-21 21-11 in 62 minutes and can subsequent face Chinese Taipei’s Chia Hao Lee.
Srikanth, the previous world no. 1, who had clinched the title in 2015, outwitted world no. 24 Chinese Taipei’s Wang Tzu Wei 21-17 21-18 in a 43-minute contest. It was his sixth win in seven conferences towards his opponent.
Srikanth, a 2011 world championships silver medallist, will subsequent face a tricky opponent in Malaysia’s prime seed Lee Zii Jia.
In ladies’s doubles, Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa, seeded sixth, overcame Indonesia’s Meilysa Trias Puspitasari and Rachel Allessya Rose 21-18 12-21 21-19 in an exhilarating opener.
The world no. 20 Indian pair will face Japan’s Rui Hirokami and Yuna Kato subsequent.
Another Indian pair of Priya Konjengbam and Shruti Mishra beat Chinese Taipei’s Huang Yu-Hsun and Liang Ting Yu 21-13 21-19 in one other ladies’s doubles match.
On Tuesday, Indian shuttlers Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand had superior to the ladies’s doubles second round with a 21-15 21-12 win over USA’s Annie Xu and Kerry Xu within the opening round.
However, the opposite three Indian pairs competing within the ladies’s doubles important draw made first round exits.
Ashwini Bhat and Shikha Gautam went down 13-21 21-16 14-21 to the fourth seeds from Hong Kong Yeung Nga Ting and Yeung Pui Lam, whereas Rutaparna Panda and Swetaparna Panda had been ousted 4-21 6-21 by prime seeds Apriyani Rahayu and Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti of Indonesia.
Simran Singhi and Ritika Thaker had been brushed apart 17-21 7-21 by Indonesia’s Tria Mayasari and Ribka Sugiarto.
