Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth stormed into the boys’s singles quarterfinals of the Madrid Masters badminton match with a straight-game win over compatriot B Sai Praneeth, right here on Thursday.
World no. Srikanth, seeded twenty first, defeated his Forty ninth-ranked Indian compatriot 21-15, 21-12 in his second spherical match.
However, the previous world primary might be in for a troublesome struggle within the quarter-finals as he takes on prime seed Kenta Nishimoto of Japan.
Nishimoto was given a walkover by France’s Arnaud Merkel within the second spherical of the competitors.
Kiran George, Priyanshu Rajawat and Sameer Verma are the opposite Indian shuttlers in fray in males’s singles.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
