Star Indian shuttler HS Prannoy stormed into the boys’s singles pre-quarterfinals after defeating All England Championship finalist Shi Yu Qi of China within the Swiss Open Super 300 badminton event right here.
World No. 9 Prannoy continued his good run, recovering from a second recreation droop to register a 21-17 19-21 21-17 win over Shi Yu Qi, the 2018 World Championships silver medallist, males’s singles In the early levels of.
Two-time Olympic medalist and fourth seed PV Sindhu additionally made a optimistic begin to her title protection as she defeated Switzerland’s Jenjira Städelmann 21-9 21-16 in a one-sided first spherical of ladies’s singles.
Prannoy will subsequent face France’s Christo Popov, whereas Sindhu will face 20-year-old Indonesian daughter Kusuma Wardani, who was a part of the gold-winning workforce on the 2022 Asia Team Championships.
On Thursday too, Kidambi Srikanth will face Lee Cheuk Yiu of Hong Kong. National champion Mithun Manjunath will tackle Chinese Taipei’s Chia Hao Li and second seeded males’s pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will face Taiwan’s Feng-Chieh Li and Feng-Jen Li.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
