PV Sindhu entered the second spherical with a straight-game win over India’s Lakshya Sen to beat world quantity 10 Kanta Tsuneyama on the primary day of the Indonesia Masters Super 750 right here on Tuesday.
Sindhu, a two-time Olympic medalist, seeded third, registered a 21-15, 21-19 win over Thailand’s Supanida Katethong in a 43-minute ladies’s singles match to arrange a second-round conflict with Spain’s Clara Azurmendi.
However, the spotlight of the day was Lakshya’s win over Kanta Tsuneyama in males’s singles.
The 20-year-old from Almora, who had reached the semi-finals of the Hylo Open Super 500 and the ultimate of the Dutch Open, registered a 21-17, 18-21, 21-17 victory over Kanta in an hour and eight minutes. ,
Lakshya will subsequent tackle high seed and two-time world champion Kento Momota of Japan within the subsequent spherical.
Sindhu did not have a lot bother defeating Supanida within the opening recreation as she took an 11-5 lead and stored her opponent a brief distance after the break.
Supanida was extra aggressive within the second recreation as she stored snapping at Sindhu’s heels. The Indian took an 11-8 lead until the break however the Thai participant stored wandering right here and there.
Sindhu obtained two match factors on the rating of 19-18. Supanida saves one earlier than Sindhu’s affair is sealed.
In males’s singles, the Nineteenth-ranked Lakshya continued his wealthy vein to shock his higher-ranked rival.
Lakshya first took a 13-11 lead after going 6-9 within the opening recreation after which took 4 straight factors from 14-13 to overhaul Kanta and achieve the higher hand.
In the second recreation, Lakshya was main 4-0 however Kanta got here again 10-8. The Indian made certain his nostril was forward at intervals, however his one level benefit was blown away by the Japanese, who broke 14-14 to roar again into the competition.
In the decider, Lakshya confirmed nice psychological fortitude as she bounced again 3-6 to leap 13-8 with a six-point break. Kanta made it 16-16 however Lakshya ensured he obtained the final snigger as he received 5 out of the following six to enter the second spherical.
However, the sixth-seeded Indian males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty bowed out of the competitors after dropping 17-21, 15-21 to Ong Yu Sin and Teo Yee of Malaysia.
Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy additionally superior to the second spherical with a 9-21, 21-11, 21-18 victory over Denmark’s Alexandra Boje and Mette Poulsen in lower than an hour.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
