Swiss Open: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty Duo Reach Quarters, PV Sindhu Crashes Out

Double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu did not defend her Swiss Open Super 300 badminton title as she was shocked by unseeded Putri Kusuma Wardani of Indonesia in an exhilarating three-game ladies’s singles second-round match.

World no.9 Sindhu, seeded fourth right here, was surprised 15-21 21-12 18-21 by the Thirty eighth-ranked Wardani of their first-ever face-off on the worldwide stage on Thursday night time.

But the second-seeded males’s pairing of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty saved India’s flag flying by coming into the quarterfinals with a hard-fought 12-21 21-17 28-26 win over the Taiwanese pair of Fang-Chih Lee and Fang-Jen Lee.

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The world No. 6 Indian duo will subsequent face the Danish pair of Jeppe Bay and Lasse Molhede in a while Friday. Earlier on Thursday, world No. 9 and fifth seed H S Prannoy made a shock second-round exit after dropping in straight video games towards unseeded Christo Popov of France. Prannoy, favorite coming into the competition, seemed a pale shadow of himself in entrance of world No. 40 Popov as he failed to offer any combat, dropping 8-21 8-21 to bow out of the boys’s singles occasion.

But it was Kidambi Srikanth, who was the primary to crash out on Thursday, dropping to Hong Kong’s Cheuk Yiu Lee.

Going by rankings, there was hardly something to separate the 2 as Srikanth is positioned twentieth on the planet as towards his rival’s nineteenth place.

It was a hard-fought match, however Lee saved his composure to emerge 22-20 21-17 winner within the singles pre-quarterfinal contest.

National champion Mithun Manjunath additionally bowed out within the second spherical, dropping 19-21 10-21 to Chia Hao Lee of Chinese Taipei.

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