P.V. Sindhu defends title by beating Jenjira Stadelmann of Switzerland in Swiss Open Super 300. | file picture
| Photo Credit: R. V. Moorthy
Star Indian shuttler H.S. Prannoy beat All England Championships finalist Shi Yu Qi of China to storm into the boys’s singles pre-quarterfinals on the Swiss Open Super 300 badminton event right here.
World quantity 9 Prannoy continued his good run as he recovered from a second recreation droop to notch up a 21-17 19-21 21-17 win over Shi Yu Qi, who’s a 2018 world championships silver medallist, within the males’s singles opening spherical.
Two-time Olympic medallist and fourth seed P.V. Sindhu too made a constructive begin to her title defence, beating Jenjira Stadelmann of Switzerland 21-9 21-16 in a lop-sided opening spherical of ladies’s singles.
Mr. Prannoy will subsequent face France’s Christo Popov, whereas Ms. Sindhu will tackle 20-year-old Indonesian Putri Kusuma Wardani, who was half of the gold medal profitable workforce of the 2022 Asia Team Championships.
Also in motion on Thursday will likely be Kidambi Srikanth towards Hong Kong’s Lee Cheuk Yiu. National champion Mithun Manjunath takes on Chia Hao Lee of Chinese Taipei and second seeded males’s pairing of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will face Taiwanese pair of Fang-Chih Lee and Fang-Jen Lee.
