Dubai [UAE], April 27 (ANI): The Indian blended doubles duo of Rohan Kapoor and N Sikki Reddy moved to the quarterfinals of the Badminton Asia Championships 2023 after they received walk-over of their spherical of 16 match on Thursday.
The ladies’s doubles duo of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand pulled out of the event as a consequence of damage.
“UPDATE XD pair Rohan/Sikki move into the quarter-finals as they get walkover from their opponents. WD duo Treesa/Gayatri pull out of the tournament due to an injury. BAC2023 Badminton,” tweeted the Badminton Association of India (BAI) Media.
Rohan Kapoor and N Sikki Reddy entered the pre-quarters of the continued Badminton Asia Championships on Wednesday by recording a 21-12, 21-16 win over the Malaysian duo of Chan Peng Soon and Cheah Yee See within the spherical of 32 stage. Treesa and Gayatri alternatively, defeated the Indonesian duo of Lanny Tria Mayasari and Ribika Sugiarto 17-21, 21-17, 21-18 of their spherical of 32 match.
In the boys’s singles competitors, Kidambi Srikanth bowed out of the competitors within the spherical of 16 stage. He misplaced to Japan’s Kodai Naraoka 14-21, 22-20, 9-21.
“@srikidambi stood tall against WR-5 Kodai Naraoka but it wasn’t enough as he bows out in pre-quarters. : @badmintonphoto BAC2023 Badminton,” tweeted BAI Media.
Kidambi superior to the spherical of 16 by defeating Bahrain’s Adnan Ebrahum by 21-13, 21-8.
The blended doubles duo of Sumeeth Reddy and Ashwini Ponappa additionally misplaced their spherical of 16 match to Chinese Taipei’s Chang Ko-chi and Lee Chih Chen in straight two video games by 15-21, 17-21.
“Well played champs : @badmintonphoto BAC2023 Badminton,” tweeted BAI Media.
Today, Prannoy HS, PV Sindhu, the boys’s doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty may even be in motion.
Earlier, on Wednesday. Aakarshi Kashyap crashed out of the championship after dropping her spherical of 32 match. She misplaced to Indonesia’s Komang Ayu Cahya Dewi by 6-21, 12-21.
Ace Indian shuttler and Olympic medalist PV Sindhu superior to the pre-quarters stage after successful her spherical of 32 match.
She beat Hsu Wen-chi of Taiwan by 21-15, 22-20.
In the boys’s doubles competitors, the duo of MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila crashed out of the event in spherical of 32 whereas the star workforce of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty made it to the following spherical.
Dhruv and Arjun went right down to the Malaysian duo of Ong Yew Sin and Teo Ee Yi 21-12, 16-21, 12-21 whereas “Sat-Chi’ as the opposite well-liked duo is thought, defeated Malaysia’s Tan Kian Meng and Tan Wee Kiong 21-14, 21-17.
Prannoy HS additionally downed Myanmar’s Phone Pyae Naing by 21-14, 21-9.
BWF World Championships bronze medallist and Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen crashed out of the championships on Wednesday.
He misplaced his opening recreation to world champion Loh Kean Yew of Singapore in straight video games within the males’s singles opening spherical on Wednesday.
Lakshya misplaced in two straight video games 7-21, 21-23 to the Singaporean shuttler in 37 minutes.
Krishna Prasad Garaga and Vishnu Vardhan Goud misplaced their males’s double recreation in opposition to the Japanese pair of Kobayashi Yugo and Takuro Hoki.Krishna and Vishnu misplaced in opposition to former world champions in two straight video games 15-21, 17-21 of their spherical of 32 match.
In the ladies’s doubles, Ashna Roy and Haritha Harinarayanan had been defeated by the Thailand duo of Jongkolphon Kitithrakul and Rawinda Prajongjai 21-11, 21-2 in one other spherical of 32 loss for India.
The males’s doubles duo of VS Ravikrishna and Sankar Prasad misplaced their spherical of 32 match to the Malaysian duo of Man Wei Chong and Kai Wun Tee by 12-21, 17-21.
The ladies’s doubles duo of Ashwini Bhat and Shikha Gautam additionally registered a spherical of 32 match in opposition to Meilysa Trias Puspitasari and Rachel Allessya of Indonesia by 22-20, 12-21 and 18-21.
In the ladies’s singles competitors, Malvika Bansod additionally crashed out of the event within the spherical of 32 stage.
She misplaced to Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi by 23-25, 19-21.
Badminton Asia Championships 2023 began from April 25 in Dubai and can go on until April 30. (ANI)