India’s premier shuttler PV Sindhu thrashed lowly-ranked Yue Yann Jaslyn Hooi of Singapore in straight video games to enter the quarterfinals of the Badminton Asia Championships on Thursday.
The fourth-seeded Indian, who had claimed a bronze in the 2014 Gimcheon edition, defeated Jaslyn Hooi, ranked 100th, 21-16 21-16 in 42 minutes to residing up a clash with third seed Chinese language He Bing Jiao, whom she had crushed for a bronze on the Tokyo Olympics.
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Sindhu has a 7-9 head-to-head document in opposition to Bing Jiao, whom she has crushed twice in the last two conferences.
The third-seeded Indian males’s doubles pairing of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty also made it to the quarterfinals with a 21-17 21-15 take over Japan’s Akira Koga and Taichi Saito.
The enviornment number 7 Indian pairing will face subsequent either fifth-seeded Malaysian Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik or the Singaporean duo of Danny Bawa Chrisnanta and Jun Liang Andy Kwek.
Earlier on Wednesday, London Olympics bronze medallist Saina Nehwal, who has been on a comeback wander after getting greater from some nagging injuries, also needed to interrupt her sweat to eke out a 21-15 17-21 21-13 take over Sim Yujin of South Korea. Whereas Sindhu will subsequent play Singapore’s Yue Yann Jaslyn Hooi, Saina will almost definitely be up in opposition to China’s Zhi Yi Wang.
Completely different remaining Indian in the ladies’s singles, Malvika Bansod too squandered a sport lead before going down 9-21 21-17 26-24 in opposition to Yeo Jia Min of Singapore in a single other laborious-fought tie.
It changed into out to be a disappointing day out for world championships bronze medal winner Lakshya Sen, who became afraid by the unseeded Li Shi Feng of China.
The fifth-seeded Indian lost 21-12 10-21 19-21 in his opening round males’s singles tie that lasted 56 minutes. World No. 19 Sai Praneeth suffered a straight sport 17-21 13-21 defeat in opposition to Jonatan Christie of Indonesia.
Seventh-seeded Kidambi Srikanth, however, saved India’s flag flying in the males’s singles competitors by progressing to the 2d round with a straight-sport take over Tze Yong Ng of Malaysia.
Srikanth defeated his rival 22-20 21-15 to residing up a clash in opposition to Chinese language qualifier Weng Hong Yang in the 2d round. It became also the end of the road for Aakarshi Kashyap, who lost 15-21 9-21 to Japanese high seed Akane Yamaguchi in the ladies’s singles.
Both the ladies’s doubles pair of Ashwini Bhat Okay and Shikga Gautam, and Simran Singhi and Ritika Thaker also made opening round exits after shedding in straight video games.
Whereas Bhat and Gautam went down 19-21 12-21 to Anna Ching Yik Cheong and Teoh Mei Xing of Malaysia, Singhi and Thaker lost 15-21 11-21 to seventh-seeded Malaysian pair of Pearly Tan and Muralitharan Thinaah.
