HS Prannoy will face both Hong Kong’s Lee Cheuk Yiu or Denmark’s Magnus Johannesen subsequent. Photo: X/@PRANNOYHSPRI. File
Star Indian shuttler HS Prannoy progressed to the second round of China Masters Super 750 badminton match with a straight sport win over Chinese Taipei’s Chou Tien Chen right here on Tuesday.
The 31-year-old, who had missed a pair of tournaments attributable to a again harm, registered a 21-18 22-20 win over the world quantity 12 Chen within the opening round, thus avenging the loss that he suffered final week in Japan.
The Asian Games bronze medallist will face both Hong Kong’s Lee Cheuk Yiu or Denmark’s Magnus Johannesen subsequent.
Top seeds Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, who’re the reigning Asian Games gold medallists, comfortably prevailed 21-13 21-10 over England’s Ben Lane and Sean Vendy to additionally make a superb begin.
The Commonwealth Games champions will meet Japan’s Akira Koga and Taichi Saito subsequent.
Aakarshi Kashyap, the one Indian challenger in ladies’s singles, discovered Zhang Yi Man of China too sizzling to deal with, taking place 12-21 14-21 in 33 minutes.
Prannoy, world no. 8, got here into the match with a 4-7 head-to-head depend however produced a gritty present to return up trumps in opposition to Chen.
Lagging 6-9 at one stage, Prannoy turned the tables with 4 straight factors to make it 12-10. Chen got here shut at 12-14 however the Indian did not give a lot of an opportunity to his rival to comfortably pocket the opening sport.
Chen tried to script a comeback and was 6-3 up early within the second sport however a preventing Prannoy stored him on his toes, regardless of lagging for many half.
The Indian had managed to eke out an 8-6 lead however Chen moved to 12-10 and stored his nostril forward until 18-16 when Prannoy surpassed him to close the door on his opponent.
