India’s Prannoy H. S.
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Two-time Olympic medallist P.V. Sindhu sailed into the quarterfinals of the ladies’s singles occasion on the Badminton Asia Championships with a straight sport win over China’s Han Yue right here on April 27.
Besides Sindhu, India’s ace males’s singles shuttler H.S. Prannoy battled his approach into the quarterfinals nevertheless it was curtains for compatriot Kidambi Srikanth.
While Prannoy, seeded eighth, needed to battle it out for an hour and two minutes to prevail over Indonesian Chico Aura Dwi Wardoyo 16-21 21-5 18-21 in a spherical of 16 match, Srikanth was proven the door by fourth seeded Japanese Kodai Naraoka 14-21 22-20 9-21.
Prannoy will subsequent play Kanta Tsuneyama of Japan.
Sindhu was at her deadly greatest as she took simply 33 minutes to beat Yue 21-12 21-15 in a spherical of 16 match.
Eighth seed Sindhu will subsequent play second seed An Se Young of Korea.
In blended doubles, Rohan Kapoor and N Sikki Reddy entered the quarterfinals after the fourth seeded Korean pair of Seo Seung Jae Chae Yu Jung handed the Indians a walkover.
The Indian duo will subsequent meet Indonesian pair of Dejan Ferdinansyah-Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja.
However, it was curtains for B Sumeeth Reddy and Ashwini Ponnappa from the blended doubles as thy misplaced 15-21 17-21.
Sixth seeded Indian pair of Sankireddy and Chirag Shetty additionally progressed to the quarterfinals of the boys’s doubles occasion with a convincing 21-13 21-11 win over Jin Yong and Na Sung Seung.
The Indian mixture will tackle third seeded Indonesian pair of Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan.
