India star shuttler PV Sindhu progressed to the quarterfinals of the ladies’s singles occasion on the Badminton Asia Championships occurring in Dubai with a straight-game win over China’s Han Yue on Thursday. Alon with the two-time Olympic medallist Sindhu, HS Prannoy, India’s ace shuttler additionally superior to the quarterfinals. However, their compatriot Kidambi Srikanth bowed out of the match.
While Prannoy had to battle it out for an hour and two minutes to prevail over Indonesian Chico Aura Dwi Wardoyo 16-21 21-5 18-21 in a spherical of 16 match, Srikanth misplaced to the fourth-seeded Japanese Kodai Naraoka 14-21 22-20 9-21. Prannoy seeded eighth, will subsequent play Kanta Tsuneyama of Japan.
Sindhu defeated Yue 21-12 21-15 in a round-of-16 match which lasted for simply 33 minutes. Sindhu, eighth-seeded, will subsequent play second-seed An Se Young of Korea.
In the combined doubles sport, Rohan Kapoor and N Sikki Reddy sailed into the quarterfinals after the fourth-seeded Korean pair of Seo Seung Jae Chae Yu Jung handed the Indians a walkover. The duo will subsequent face the Indonesian pair of Dejan Ferdinansyah Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja.
However, one other Indian pair B Sumeeth Reddy and Ashwini Ponnappa bowed out from the combined doubles as thy misplaced 15-21 17-21.
Sixth-seeded Indian pair Satwik Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty progressed to the quarterfinals of the boys’s doubles occasion with a convincing 21-13 21-11 win over Jin Yong and Na Sung Seung. The star Indian dup will tackle the third-seeded Indonesian pair of Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan.
(Inputs from PTI)
