Kidambi Srikanth prevailed over Lakshya Sen in an all-India duel within the males’s singles second spherical of the French Open Super 750 badminton event right here on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Sameer Verma defeated Anthony Sinisuka Ginting of Indonesia to succeed in the second spherical.
2021 World Championships silver-winner Srikanth defeated junior compatriot Sen 21-18, 21-18 in a 46-minute first spherical match.
This was the second match of the profession between the highest two Indian shuttlers. Sen had misplaced to his senior compatriot of their final assembly for the bronze medal within the semi-finals of the 2021 World Championships.
Srikanth will subsequent tackle the winner of the primary spherical match between Rasmus Gemke of Denmark and Nhat Nguyen of Ireland.
Meanwhile, unseeded Verma defeated sixth seed Ginting 21-15 21-23 22-20 in a primary spherical match that lasted one hour and 17 minutes.
Verma made a superb comeback within the deciding recreation. They saved two match factors after trailing 18-20.
Thus Verma avenged Ginting’s loss on the Swiss Open in March.
He will face Thailand’s Kunlavut Vitidasaran within the second spherical.
HS Prannoy made it to the second spherical of the event by giving a troublesome struggle to Malaysia’s Lew Darren in males’s singles.
Prannoy defeated his lower-order opponent 21-16 16-21 21-16 within the first spherical match that lasted one hour and 13 minutes.
Prannoy will subsequent face China’s Lu Guang Xu.
In males’s doubles, Indian pair of MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila went down 15-21, 16-21 to fifth-seeded Indonesian pair of Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Riyan Ardiant within the first spherical.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
