An picture of Kiran George. Photo: Twitter/@BAI_Media
India’s Kiran George scripted a shocking straight-games win over world quantity 9 Shi Yuqi of China to storm into the pre-quarterfinals of the Thailand Open Super 500 event right here on May 31.
Ashmita Chaliha and Saina Nehwal additionally made profitable begins to their marketing campaign in girls’s singles.
On a day when Kidambi Srikanth and B. Sai Praneeth made early exits, Odisha Open winner Kiran, a product of the Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy, notched up a 21-18 22-20 win over third seed Shi Yu Qi, who’s a 2018 world championships silver-medallist
Kiran will tackle China’s Weng Hong Yang subsequent.
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In different matches, Ashmita, who got here by way of the qualifiers, beat compatriot Malvika Bansod 17-21 14-21, whereas London Olympics bronze-medallist Saina defeated Canada’s Wen Yu Zhang 21-13 21-7.
Ashmita will subsequent face Rio Olympics gold-medallist Carolina Marin, who’s seeded fourth, whereas Saina is more likely to meet He Bing Jiao of China.
Srikanth, the 2021 world championships silver-medallist, misplaced 8-21 21-16 14-21 to China’s Weng Hong Yang, who had reached the ultimate of Malaysia Masters final week.
Praneeth, who competed on the Tokyo Olympics, additionally discovered France’s Christo Popov too sizzling to deal with, happening 14-21 16-21 in one other match.
Orleans Masters–winner Priyanshu Rajawat too couldn’t cross the opening hurdle, happening 19-21 10-21 to Malaysia’s Ng Tze Yong.
Former world quantity 11 Sameer Verma, who had received the Slovenia Open just lately, went down 15-21 15-21 to Denmark’s Magnus Johannesen.
Among different Indians, PV Sindhu, Lakshya Sen, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will play later within the day.
The BWF World Tour is split into six ranges, specifically World Tour Finals, 4 Super 1000, six Super 750, seven Super 500, and 11 Super 300 so as. One different class of event, the BWF Tour Super 100 stage, additionally provides rating factors.
The Super 500 is a Grade 2 (stage 4) occasion within the BWF event rating system.
