Shenzhen [China], November 21 (ANI): Indian ace shuttler HS Prannoy and the thrilling males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty moved to the second spherical of the continuing China Masters being held in Shenzhen on Tuesday.
Prannoy and Satwiksairaj-Chirag, World Championships bronze medalists, registered straight sport wins to maneuver to the pre-quarterfinals stage, as per Olympics.com.
Prannoy, India’s top-ranked males’s shuttler at quantity eight, beat the Twelfth-ranked Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei 21-18, 22-20 in 50 minutes.
The 31-year-old shuttler overcame a gradual begin and trailing by 6-9 within the opening sport to maneuver to a lead of 11-10 and ultimately a four-point lead of 17-13 and gained the primary sport.
The second sport proved to be extra intently fought one as rallies had been intense. Prannoy made the scoreline 18-all and ultimately gained the sport by 22-20.
Chou had final crushed Prannoy simply the earlier week in Kumamoto Masters Japan and leads the Indians 7-5 in head-to-head report.
In the boys’s doubles competitors, the world quantity 5 Satwiksairaj and Chirag gained over England’s Ben Lane and Sean Vendy in 37 minutes by 21-13, 21-10.
However, there have been some disappointments as effectively, with Aakarshi Kashyap, the one Indian girls’s participant within the competitors, dropping to world No. 17 native Zhang Yi Man 12-21, 14-21 in 33 minutes to crash out of the match within the first spherical itself, persevering with her woeful type this yr which has seen her by no means attain the spherical two.
Results at China Masters 2023, a BWF Super 750 occasion, will likely be counting in the direction of gamers’ qualifying rankings for the Paris 2024 Olympics. The qualification window for badminton began on May 1 this yr and can concluded on April 2024.
On Wednesday, Lakshya Sen, Kidambi Srikanth and Priyanshu Rajawat will likely be in motion within the males’s singles occasions. (ANI)