Second-seeded star duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty superior to the quarterfinals of the Swiss Open Super 300 badminton match. The pair defeated the Taiwanese pair of Fang-Chih Lee and Fang-Jen Leewith a hard-fought 12-21 21-17 28-26. The world No. 6 Chirag-Satwik duo will subsequent face the Danish pair of Jeppe Bay and Lasse Molhede afterward Friday.
Shuttler PV Sindhu did not defend her Swiss Open Super 300 badminton title as she suffered a loss to unseeded Putri Kusuma Wardani of Indonesia in a three-game ladies’s singles second-round match in Basel. Sindhu, seeded fourth was surprised 15-21 21-12 18-21 by the Thirty eighth-ranked Wardani of their first-ever conflict on the worldwide stage.
Earlier on Thursday, fifth-seeded H S Prannoy bowed out of the second-round exit after dropping in straight video games towards unseeded Christo Popov of France. Prannoy who was favorite within the contest, had an underwhelming efficiency towards the world No. 40 Popov as he failed to provide any battle, dropping 8-21 8-21, he made an exit from the boys’s singles occasion.
However, it was Kidambi Srikanth, who was the primary to crash out on Thursday. Hong Kong’s Cheuk Yiu Lee defeated Srikanth. Srikanth is positioned twentieth on the planet towards his rival’s nineteenth place. It was an exhilarating match however Lee stored his composure to register a 22-20 21-17 win within the singles pre-quarterfinal contest.
National champion Mithun Manjunath additionally exited the match within the second spherical, dropping 19-21 10-21 to Chia Hao Lee of Chinese Taipei.
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