Lucknow, 28 November (HS). Top seed PV Sindhu stormed into the women’s singles quarterfinals with a hard-fought victory at the Syed Modi India International HSBC World Tour Super 300 Badminton Championships. In men’s singles, India’s top seed Lakshya Sen made it to the last eight. Pre-quarterfinal matches were played on Thursday in the Championship with a prize money of US $ 2,10,000 held at Yonex Sunrise Babu Banarasi Das Badminton Academy, in which in the women’s singles, unseeded India’s Unnati Hooda caused an upset by defeating Pornpicha of Thailand 21-18. Won by defeating 22-20.
Top seed PV Sindhu defeated compatriot Ira Sharma 21-10, 12-21, 21-15. Sindhu, ranked 18th in the world, had to struggle hard to win against Ira, ranked 147th in BWF. The first game was easily won by World Championship gold and double Olympic gold medalist Sindhu. In the second game, Sindhu lagged behind initially and Ira had taken a lead of 11-1. Whereas second seeded Malvika Bansod in women’s, third seeded Kiran George in men’s singles and mixed doubles, India’s top seeded pair of B. Sumit Reddy and Sikki Reddy became victims of upsets. In the women’s doubles, the last edition’s runners-up, along with top seeds Ashwini Ponnappa and T.sha Crasto, the fifth seeded Indian pair of Priya Konzengbam and Shruti Mishra also reached the last eight.
Lakshya will compete with Meisnam
In the third and deciding game, PV Sindhu came back and won after struggling for one point each. PV Sindhu will now face China’s Dai Wang. In men’s singles, India’s top seed Lakshya Sen easily defeated D.el Dubovenko of Israel in straight games 21-14, 21-13. Commonwealth Games gold and World Championship bronze winner Lakshya will now face India’s Meisnam Luang Merba in the next round. In the pre-quarterfinals of mixed doubles, India suffered a setback with the defeat of top seeds B. Sumeeth Reddy and Sikki Reddy. The pair was defeated by Malaysia’s Lu Bing Koon and Ho Lo Yee 19-21, 21-16, 21-13. In the women’s doubles pre-quarterfinals, the fifth seeded Indian pair of Priya Konjengbam and Shruti Mishra of Uttar Pradesh lost to compatriots Kavipriya Selvam and Reached the last eight with a 21-15, 21-12 win against Simran Singhi. India’s Ayush defeated Malaysia’s Defeated Justin Hoh
Top seeds T.sha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa of India defeated Chen Su Yu and Yi Yin H of Chinese Taipei 21-19, 8-21, 21-12 and second seeds Trisha Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand P of India defeated India’s Ashwini Bhatt and Defeated Shikha Gautam 21-13, 21-10. In women’s singles, unseeded India’s Sriyanshi Wali Shetty caused an upset by defeating second seed Malvika Bansod of India 21-12, 21-15. In the women’s singles, unseeded India’s Unnati Hooda secured a place in the last eight with a shock 21-18, 22-20 win over Thailand’s Pornpicha Choikkewang. In men’s singles, second seed Priyanshu Rajawat of India defeated Le Duc Phat of Vietnam 21-15, 21-8 and eighth seed Ayush Shetty of India defeated Justin Hoh of Malaysia 21-12, 21-19 to reach the next round. Made.
Japan’s Shogo Ogawa defeated India’s Kiran George
Japan’s Shogo Ogawa caused an upset by defeating third seed Kiran George of India 19-21, 22-20, 21-11. In women’s singles, India’s Tasneem Mir defeated fifth seed Anupama Upadhyay of India 21-15, 13-21, 21-7. In men’s doubles, second seeded India’s Hariharan and RK Rethina Sabapathy defeated Thailand’s P. Kaosamang and Tandon P. 21-18, 21-17 and India’s Sai Prateek and Prithvi K. Rai defeated China’s Chen Zhu Jun and GR Han. Defeated 21-14, 22-20. In mixed doubles, India’s second seeds Satish Kumar Karunakaran and Adya Varyanath, fifth seeds India’s Dhruv Kapila and T.sha Crasto and in women’s doubles India’s Rutuparna Panda and Swetaparna Panda also reached the last eight with their wins.
