A file picture of P.V. Sindhu.
| Photo Credit: PTI
P.V. Sindhu superior to the quarterfinals of the Madrid Spain Masters badminton event, with a snug 21-14, 21-12 win over Taiwan’s Huang Yu-Hsun, on Thursday.
Later, the eighth-seeded males’s doubles group of M.R. Arjun and Dhruv Kapila and the combined pairing of B. Sumeeth Reddy and N. Sikki Reddy additionally made the last eight.
With high seed Carolina Marin of Spain pulling out after her title-winning run on the All England Championships and Swiss Open within the last two weeks, Sindhu is now the favorite to assert the crown and finish an extended wait.
Meanwhile on Wednesday, it was curtains for Ok. Srikanth, Mithun Manjunath and Kiran George within the opening spherical of males’s singles.
Japan’s Koo Takahashi beat Srikanth 21-18, 21-15, Mithun Manjunath misplaced 11-21, 12-21 in opposition to Taiwan’s Wang Tzu Wei, and Kiran was overwhelmed by Taiwan’s Chia Hao Lee 21-8, 21-10.
The outcomes:
Women (pre-quarterfinals): P.V. Sindhu bt Huang Yu-Hsun (Tpe) 21-14, 21-12.
Men: Singles (spherical of 32): Koo Takahashi (Jpn) bt Ok. Srikanth 21-18, 21-15; Wang Tzu Wei (Tpe) bt Mithun Manjunath 21-11, 21-12; Chia Hao Lee (Tpe) bt Kiran George 21-8, 21-10.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): M.R. Arjun & Dhruv Kapila bt Mathew & Christopher Grimley (Sco) 21-17, 21-19.
Mixed doubles (Pre-quarterfinals): B. Sumeeth Reddy & N. Sikki Reddy bt Presley Smith & Allison Lee (USA) 22-20, 21-18.
