The Indian girls’s doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand progressed to the quarterfinals of the Swiss Open with a straight-game win over compatriots Priya Konjengbam and Shruti Mishra right here on Thursday.
The eighth seeded Commonwealth Games bronze medallists hardly broke any 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 following spherical.
Later, 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.
The race for Olympic qualification thus spiced up in girls’s doubles as solely the highest-ranked Indian pair inside high 16 by April finish will make the reduce for Paris.
Double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu, in-form Lakshya Sen, Kidambi Srikanth, Kiran George and Priyanshu Rajawat will probably be in motion in the singles occasion later in the day.
The greatest face-off will probably be between Sindhu and 17-year-old Tomoka Miyazaki, who had claimed the gold medal on the 2022 world junior championships, and is coming into the match after profitable her maiden Super 300 crown at Orleans Masters in France final week.
Sen will tackle Chia Hao Lee of Chinese Taipei, whereas Srikanth will face high seed Lee Zii Jia.
