Published By: Ritayan Basu
Last Updated: February 01, 2024, 21:06 IST
Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand (Twitter Image)
The ladies’s doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand as effectively the singles stars Mithun Manjunath and Ashmita Chaliha booked their place within the quarterfinals at Thailand Masters.
Sixth seeds Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand entered the ladies’s doubles quarterfinals, however former world no.1 Kidambi Srikanth was upstaged by decrease-ranked compatriot Mithun Manjunath on a blended day for Indians on the Thailand Masters badminton event on Thursday.
With the robust three-sport win over Srikanth, Manjunath, together with Ashmita Chaliha within the ladies’s draw, progressed to the final-eight stage of the singles’ competitors.
Treesa and Gayatri beat fellow Indians Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa 21-15 24-22 of their spherical of 16 match.
They will subsequent be up towards fourth seeds Febriana Dwipuji Kusuma and Amallia Cahaya Pratiwi of Indonesia.
Manjunath, the present nationwide champion who’s ranked 63rd on this planet, needed to sweat it out for 54 minutes to get the higher of former world no.1 Srikanth 21-9 13-21 21-17 in a spherical of 16 match.
Manjunath will play Netherlands Mark Caljouw within the final-eight spherical.
However, it was curtains for the opposite Indian in males’s singles draw, S Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian.
Subramanian, a qualifier, misplaced 9-21 11-21 to Chinese Taipei’s Chun-Yi Lin to exit the event.
Ashmita additionally made the subsequent spherical, beating Chinese Taipei’s Yu Po Pai 21-12 15-21 21-17 in ladies’s singles.
But Malvika Bansod made an early exit in ladies’s singles, shedding 22-24 7-21 to native shuttler Busanan Ongbamrungphan within the pre-quarters.
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