New Delhi [India], May 28 (ANI): India’s main stars PV Sindhu, Lakshya Sen, the boys’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, together with combined doubles duo Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto, superior to the quarterfinals of the Singapore Open on Thursday.
Sindhu outplayed Japan’s Riko Gunji in straight video games, whereas Satwik-Chirag defeated Lee Jhe-Huei and Yang Po-Hsuan 21-15, 11-21, 21-18. Dhruv and Tanisha overcame a Japanese problem to beat Yuta Watanabe and Maya Taguchi 8-21, 21-17, 21-16, in keeping with a launch.
The skilled Sindhu registered a cushty straight-games victory in simply 37 minutes, sustaining management in each video games from the start. She will subsequent face high seed An Se-young within the quarterfinals.
Lakshya Sen progressed in males’s singles after Thailand’s Kunlavut Vitidsarn retired with simply two factors performed within the match. Lakshya will subsequent tackle Japan’s Koki Watanabe.
In males’s doubles, fourth-seeded Satwik and Chirag began strongly by taking the opening recreation however have been pushed right into a decider after the Chinese Taipei pair dominated the second.
The Indians got here again to shut out the match 21-18 within the decider, extending their head-to-head report towards the duo to 7-0. They will subsequent face Malaysia’s Kang Khai Xing and Aaron Tai, to whom they misplaced their All England Open marketing campaign earlier this 12 months.
In combined doubles, regardless of dropping the opening recreation closely, Dhruv and Tanisha mounted a robust comeback to safe the subsequent two video games. A difficult quarterfinal conflict awaits them towards the third-seeded Malaysian pair Chen Tang Jie and Toh Ee Wei. (ANI)