Two-time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu and World Championships bronze medalist Lakshya Sen registered contrasting victories to advance to the ladies’s and males’s singles semi-finals respectively on the Yonex-Sunrise India Open badminton on Friday.
Top seed former world champion Sindhu beat compatriot Ashmita Chaliha 21-7, 21-18 in 36 minutes whereas Sen defeated HS Prannoy 14-21, 21-9, 21-14. Another All India quarter remaining.
The 26-year-old from Hyderabad clashed within the ladies’s singles last-four with sixth seed Supanida Katethong of Thailand, who superior to the semi-finals after third seed Yo Jia Min of Singapore was dominated out of the event as a result of “high fever”. .
Third seed Sen will face Malaysia’s Ng Tje Yong or Ireland’s Nhat Nguyen within the semi-finals. In the opposite ladies’s semi-final, Akarshi Kashyap will face second seed Thai Busanan Ongbamrungphan when the Indian registered a 21-12, 21-15 win over compatriot Malvika Bansod on Friday.
Busanan defeated American Lauren Lam 21-12, 21-8 within the final eight. Sindhu was final up in opposition to Chaliha on the 83rd Yonex-Sunrise Senior National Championships in 2019, the teen from Assam put up a spirited efficiency.
On Friday, Chaliha took time to get into the groove and put up a superb combat within the second sport however could not cease Sindhu from strolling away from the match.
Sindhu, blazing all weapons blazing within the opening sport, leapfrogged to steer 11-5 on the interval after which slipped previous the final 10 factors to earn bragging rights. Chaliha received the higher of herself within the second sport as she tied 9-9 earlier than Sindhu took a slim one level benefit on the break. Sindhu led 15-11, however Chaliha once more got here again 15-15.
Sindhu then modified gears and received 4 match factors. Chaliha saved two match factors earlier than Sindhu’s match was over. In the boys’s singles, Sen and Prannoy had been engaged in a battle for supremacy, with the previous dominating the opening spherical to take a 6-2 lead.
Prannoy, who had reached the quarter-finals within the final World Championship, leveled his sport at 12-10 on time after which zoomed to 15-14 to win the opening sport. Sen returned to the competition within the second sport to take an enormous 12-5 lead and there was no wanting again from that time on as Prannoy fell.
In the decider, Prannoy took the early lead, taking a 6–1 benefit, however couldn’t keep it as Sen took an 11–9 lead at an interval after which took 9 of the subsequent 11 factors to show the match in his favor. have accomplished. , Men’s doubles pair of Ishaan Bhatnagar and Sai Prateek Ok went down 7-21, 7-21 to 3rd seeds Ong Yu Sin and Teo E Yi of Malaysia in simply 19 minutes.
In combined doubles, Indian pair of eighth seed Venkat Gaurav Prasad and Juhi Devangan went down 10-21, 13-21 to Malaysian pair of Chen Tang Ji and Pek Yen Wei in simply 23 minutes. Another Indian pair of Nitin HV and Ashwini Bhat Ke crashed out of the $400,000 competitors after shedding 15-21, 19-21 to Singapore’s Hee Yong Kai Terry and Tan Wei Han.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
