The two-time Olympic medalist and former world champion PV Sindhu secured a spot within the pre-quarterfinals of the continuing Madrid Spain Masters badminton match following a win over Canada’s Wen Yu Zhang in her first-round sport on Wednesday. The second-seeded Sindhu defeated world quantity 49 Zhang 21-16, 21-12, in half-hour to e-book her spherical of 16 spot. Currently positioned at eleventh in world rankings, Sindhu’s subsequent problem will probably be world No. 63 Huang Yu-Husn of Chinese Taipei, as per the Olympics.com.
Ashmita Chaliha, one other challenger for India within the girls’s singles, crashed out within the first spherical following a loss to Ratchanok Intanon 21-13, 21-11 in 28 minutes.
India additionally had a disappointing begin within the males’s singles occasion as Sathish Kumar Karunakaran misplaced his intently fought first-round match to Jason Teh of Indonesia, the 56th-ranked shuttler. Karunakaran additionally teamed up with Aadya Variath in blended doubles competitors, in a shedding effort in opposition to Indonesia’s Rinov Rivaldy and Pitha Haningtyas Menthari. The Indian duo misplaced their match 21-18, 21-14.
Following Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen’s withdrawal, Kidambi Srikanth, who was the spearhead of India’s males’s singles problem on this match, registered a 21-18, 21-15 loss to Japan’s Koo Takahashi within the first spherical.
Mithun Manjunath additionally misplaced his first-round sport in opposition to Wang Tzu Wei of Chinese Taipei 21-11, 21-12, whereas the blended doubles duo of BS Reddy-N Sikki Reddy marched into pre-quarters following a 16-21, 22-20, 21-14 win over Chinese Taipei’s Chen Zhi Ray and Yang Ching Tun. The match began on March 26 and can finish on March 31.
The Madrid Spain Masters 2024 affords gamers rating factors for the Paris 2024 Olympics, happening from July-August this 12 months. The rating interval for badminton started on May 1, 2023, and can finish subsequent month.
