World Championships bronze medalists Lakshya Sen and HS Prannoy superior to the pre-quarterfinals with straight sport wins within the males’s singles on the Denmark Open right here on Wednesday whereas veteran Saina Nehwal crashed out within the girls’s singles first spherical.
Unseeded Sen defeated sixth seed Anthony Sinisuka Ginting of Indonesia 21-16, 21-12 in a first-round match to go on to a mouth-watering pre-quarterfinal in opposition to fellow Indian HS Prannoy within the Super 750 match. was prepared.
It was Sen’s third win of the 12 months in opposition to Ginting, having beforehand received the German Open in March and the Thomas Cup in May.
Prannoy needed to work more durable throughout his 21-13 22-20 win over China’s Zhao Jun Peng in 43 minutes. He had misplaced to the identical opponent twice earlier this 12 months – the Indonesia Open in June and the World Championships in August.
In girls’s singles, 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Saina crashed out of the primary spherical after shedding 17-21 21-19 11-21 to Zhang Yi Mann of China in a 48-minute duel.
This was Saina’s second lack of the 12 months in opposition to the identical opponent, after shedding on the Macau Open in February.
The Indian marketing campaign in girls’s singles got here to an finish within the match with Saina’s exit.
Men’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty defeated the seventh-seeded Korean pair of Kang Min Hyuk and Seo Seung Jae 21-15, 21-19 in a 44-minute first spherical match within the match.
In the pre-quarterfinals, the Indian pair will face Indonesia’s Mohd Shohibul Fikri and Maulana Bagas.
Kidambi Srikanth will tackle seventh seed Loh Keen Yew of Singapore within the males’s singles pre-quarterfinals on Thursday.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
