Top shuttlers P V Sindhu and HS Prannoy progressed to the women’s and men’s singles pre-quarterfinals respectively with straight game wins on a mixed day for India at the USD 350,000 BWF World Tour Super 500 tournament here today.<\/p>\n
Olympic silver medallist Sindhu brushed aside Bulgaria’s Linda Zetchiri 21-8, 21-15 in the opening round to set up a clash with Hong Kong’s Yip Pui Yin.<\/p>\n
Playing only his second tournament after recovering from an inflammation in his ankle, Prannoy defeated Spain’s Pablo Abian, who had clinched the White Nights title last Sunday, 21-16, 21-19 in a men’s singles match at Nimibutr Stadium here.<\/p>\n
Returning to action after recovering from a stress fracture on his shin, 2014 Commonwealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap saw off Canada’s Jason Anthony Ho-Shue 21-15, 21-17 to set up a pre-quarterfinal match against Japan’s Kanta Tsuneyama.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, men’s doubles pair of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy prevailed over Chinese Taipei’s Chen Hung Ling and Wang Chi-Lin 21-18, 15-21, 21-17 to reach the pre-quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
However, it was curtains for Swiss Open champion Sameer Verma and young Vaishnavi Reddy Jakka in the opening round.<\/p>\n
Sameer lost 18-21, 16-21 to Thailand’s Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk, while Vaishnavi was shown the door by eighth seed Sayaka Sato of Japan after notching up a 21-13, 21-17 win over the Indian.<\/p>\n
Also bowing out of the tournament was rising men’s doubles pair of Arjun MR and Ramchandran Shlok after losing 18-21, 21-13, 16-21 to Wahyu Nayaka Arya Pangkaryanira and Ade Yusuf Santoso of Indonesia.<\/p>\n
Another men’s pair of Mandiraju Anilkumar Raju and Venkat Gaurav Prasad also put up a fight before going down 21-14, 12-21, 14-21 to Chung Yonny and Tam Chun Hei of Hong Kong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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