Sydney [Australia], August 3 (ANI): Indian shuttlers HS Prannoy, Kidambi Srikanth and Priyanshu Rajawat continued their high-quality run within the ongoing Australian Open, reaching the quarterfinals of the boys’s singles competitors after profitable their pre-quarters matches on Thursday.
Prannoy survived a giant scare towards Chinese Taipei’s world quantity 42 participant Chi Yu Jen, clinching a 19-21, 21-19, 21-13 win after being one set down, as per Olympics.com.
Prannoy, the sixth seed, misplaced a carefully fought opening recreation to Chi Yu. But he stored his nerves and registered a victory within the second recreation which was as carefully fought as the primary. In the third recreation, the Indian shuttler dominated his opponent to win the match in 74 minutes.
HS Pranoy will now face world quantity two and prime seed Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, who knocked out India’s Kiran George 21-15, 21-18.
Kidambi beat Chinese Taipei’s Su Li Yang 21-10, 21-17 in simply 39 minutes to safe a spot within the quarterfinals. The former world primary Srikanth can be competing in QFs towards compatriot and Orleans Masters champion Priyanshu Rajawat, who beat world quantity 28 Wang Tzu Wei of Chinese Taipei 21-8, 13-21, 21-19 in his pre-quarters match.
PV Sindhu additionally stormed into the quarterfinals. The two-time Olympics medallist bought higher off her compatriot Aakarshi Kashyap to prevail within the Round of 16 by profitable two straight units. She received 21-14, 21-10.
She will go up towards the American shuttler Beiwen Zhang within the quarterfinals.
Mithun Manjunath, who had brought on an upset by beating world quantity seven and former world champion Loh Kean Yew on Saturday made an exit from the competitors after 21-13, 12-21, 21-19 loss to Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia in pre-quarters match, which lasted over one hour. In the ladies’s doubles, the Indian pair of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly confronted an exit after a two-game loss to the Japanese pair of Mayu Matsumoto and Wakana Nagahara by 21-10, 22-20.
India’s combined doubles marketing campaign ended on Wednesday after B Sumeeth Reddy-Ashwini Ponnappa and Rohan Kapoor-N Sikki Reddy had been defeated of their opening spherical matches.
The Australian Open outcomes will depend in the direction of gamers’ qualifying rankings for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, the qualifying window for which began on May 1.
The match began on August 1 and can finish on August 6. (ANI)