P.V. Sindhu. File.
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Two-time Olympic medallist P.V. Sindhu’s run on the Swiss Open was minimize quick by a Japanese teenager, whereas prime Indian male shuttler Lakshya Sen misplaced to Lee Chia-Hao of Chinese-Taipei in the pre-quarterfinals of the Super 300 event right here.
Ace Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth, Priyansh Rajawat and Kiran George gained their respective males’s singles round-of 16 matches to advance to the quarterfinals late on Thursday night time.
Sindhu, after bowing out in the second spherical of the recently-concluded All England Championships, misplaced to Japan’s 17-year-old junior world champion Tomoka Miyazaki 21-16 19-21 16-21, whereas Sen was eradicated by Lee Chia-hao 17-21 15-21 in simply 38 minutes in the round-of 16 contest.
Srikanth, although, secured a spot in the quarterfinals by defeating prime seed Lee Zii Jia of Malaysia 21-61 21-15, whereas Rajawat bought the higher of Lei La Xi of China 21-14 21-13 to clinch a last-eight berth.
George struggled towards French shuttler Alex Lanier earlier than prevailing 18-21 22-20 21-18 in gruelling 71-minute contest to e book a quarterfinal berth.
Srikanth will tackle Lee Chia-Hao, whereas Rajawat will conflict towards Chinese-Taipei’s Chou Tien-Chen in the last-eight spherical. George will look to get previous Rasmus Gemke of Denmark to safe a spot in the semifinals.
Sindhu, who appears to be returning to kind after a protracted harm layoff, fought her teenaged rival tooth and nail earlier than bowing out in spherical of 16 with the Japanese shuttler drawing on her youthful power to make an announcement towards the two-time Olympic medallist.
Miyazaki, who had claimed the gold medal on the 2022 world junior championships, and has come into the event after successful her maiden Super 300 crown at Orleans Masters in France final week, misplaced the primary sport 16-21 however staged a nice restoration to take the tie into the decider earlier than successful in 80 minutes.
Miyazaki stored hitting these excessive tosses to maintain Sindhu on the again. The Indian needed to play rather a lot of over-the-head returns and ended up making errors because the rallies prolonged.
In the tip, the Japanese had six match factors. Sindhu saved two earlier than spraying into the web.
Earlier on Thursday, the Indian girls’s doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand progressed to the quarterfinals with a straight-game win over compatriots Priya Konjengbam and Shruti Mishra.
The eighth seeded Commonwealth Games bronze medallists hardly broke a sweat as they brushed apart fellow Indians Priya and Shruti, ranked seventy fifth in the world, 21-10 21-12 in 36 minutes.
World no. 26 Treesa and Gayatri, who’re sharing the 14th place in the Olympic Games qualification rating, will face Australia’s Setyana Mapasa and Angela Yu in the subsequent spherical.
World No. 20 Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa, who’re 6,296 factors forward of Treesa and Gayatri in the Paris qualification race at twelfth spot, misplaced 17-21 16-21 to Japan’s world No. 30 Rui Hirokami and Yuna Kato.
