India’s Chirag Sen, ranked 106th on this planet, got here up with a shocking efficiency to knock out third seed Mads Christophersen of Denmark within the males’s singles pre-quarterfinal of the Odisha Masters badminton match on Thursday.
Top seed Wen Chi Hsu of Chinese Taipei confronted a tricky opponent in Lo Sin Yan Happy of Hong Kong, taking place 15-21, 16-21 within the ladies’s singles pre-quarterfinal.
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Unseeded Chirag, 25, after having fun with success towards Saneeth Dayanand Shimoga (R64) and Varun Kapur (R32), put up a commendable efficiency towards Christophersen defeating the 52nd-ranked Dane 21-10, 15-21, 21-17.
In different matches, the doubles pairs of Ashwini Ponnappa-Tanisha Crasto and Rutuparna Panda-Swetaparna Panda progressed to the quarterfinals, whereas Unnati Hooda and Kiran George superior to final-eight in singles.
In combined doubles pre-quarterfinals, the duo of Tanisha and Dhruv Kapila defeated Amri Syahnawi and Winny Oktavina Kandow of Indonesia 21-16, 21-12, whereas Ashwini and Rohan Kapur overcame eighth seeds Sumeeth Reddy and Sikki Reddy 21-13, 21-13.
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Unnati defeated Ashmita Chaliha 21-18, 21-16 to make the quarterfinals.
Former world No. 1 and fourth seed Nozomi Okuhara of Japan got here out a 21-11, 21-16 winner towards Stephanie Widjaja of Indonesia in ladies’s singles.
Unseeded Subhankar Dey precipitated a giant upset defeating fifth seed Mithun Manjunath 21-15, 14-21, 15-21.
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