Nanjing
\nHS Prannoy and Sameer Verma geared up for bigger battles with straight-game victories as India made a resounding start at the badminton World Championships.<\/p>\n
World No. 11 Prannoy started his campaign in style, beating New Zealand\u2019s Abhinav Manota 21-12 21-11, while Sameer dumped France\u2019s Lucas Corvee 21-13 21-10 to progress to the second round. Prannoy will face Brazil\u2019s Ygor Coelho, while Swiss Open champion Sameer will have an uphill task of taming the legendary Lin Dan of China.<\/p>\n
The mixed doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa prevailed over Denmark\u2019s Niclas Nohr and Sara Thygesen 21-9 22-20. The world No. 39 Indian combo will next face the German pair of Mark Lamsfuss and Isabel Herttrich.<\/p>\n
India\u2019s top mixed doubles duo of Pranaav Jerry Chopra and N Sikki Reddy, ranked 22nd, also made a good start, defeating Czech Republic\u2019s Jakub Bitman and Alzbeta Basova 21-17 21-15 to set up a clash with the Indonesian combine of Hafiz Faizal and Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja.<\/p>\n
The men\u2019s doubles pair of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy defeated Bulgarian pair Daniel Nikolov and Ivan Rusev 21-13 21-18 to make it to the second round. The mixed doubles pairs of Saurabh Sharma-Anoushka Parikh and Rohan Kapoor-Kuhoo Garg also pulled off impressive wins to advance to the second round. Saurabh and Anoushka defeated the Nigerian combo of Enejoh Abah and Peace Orji 21-13 21-12, while Rohan and Kuhoo beat Canada\u2019s Toby Ng and Rachel Honderich 21-19 21-6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nanjing HS Prannoy and Sameer Verma geared up for bigger battles with straight-game victories as India made a resounding start at the badminton World Championships. World No. 11 Prannoy started his campaign in style, beating New Zealand\u2019s Abhinav Manota 21-12 21-11, while Sameer dumped France\u2019s Lucas Corvee 21-13 21-10 to progress to the second round. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37879,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37877\/revisions\/37879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}