Kumamoto Masters Japan 2026: Treesa-Gayatri begin marketing campaign with win

Kumamoto [Japan], November 10 (ANI): The Indian girls’s double pairing of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand began off their marketing campaign on the Kumamoto Masters Japan 2026 badminton match on Tuesday with a win. 

Treesa and Gayatri reached pre-quarters, beating higher-ranked Japanese pair Hinata Suzuki and Nao Yamakita 21-17, 21-14 in 42 minutes on the Kumamoto Prefectural Gymnasium, as per Olympics.com. 

It was their first assembly in opposition to the thirteenth ranked pairing, which gained the Canada Open this yr and completed runners-up on the Denmark Open Super 750 final month.

Treesa-Gayatri will subsequent face third seeds and world quantity 5 Rin Iwanaga and Kie Nakanishi of Japan within the spherical of 16.

The two pairs are stage 1-1 of their head-to-head report, with Treesa and Gayatri prevailing of their most up-to-date assembly 21-16, 21-12 within the spherical of 16 on the BWF World Championships in New Delhi earlier this yr.

In the boys’s doubles competitors, the pairing of Hariharan Amsakarunan and MR Arjun additionally superior to pre-quarters, after third seeds Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik of Malaysia retired harm from the match when the Indians had been main 11-6 within the opening sport. 

Earlier, Dhruv Kapila and Radhika Sharma made an exit from the combined doubles qualifiers after shedding 21-16, 21-15 to the USA’s Chen Zhi Yi and Francesca Corbett.

Lakshya Sen will begin his marketing campaign on Wednesday. Meanwhile, India’s males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty and girls’s singles participant Malvika Bansod withdrew from the match after initially being listed to compete.

Lakshya climbed eight locations to achieve the tenth spot within the race to the finals after securing the Hylo Open title earlier this month. The Commonwealth Games champion will likely be eyeing stepping into the highest eight, getting into the cut-off zone for the BWF World Tour Finals. The BWF Finals function the highest eight gamers/pairs throughout all disciplines and can happen this yr from December 9 to 13 in China. 

Last yr at this occasion, Lakshya made it to the semifinals, shedding to residence favorite Kenta Nishimoto in three video games. He additionally achieved a runners-up end within the All England Open this yr. 

The world quantity six pairing of Satwik-Chirag can even be main the boys’s doubles problem, having gained two BWF Super 750 titles this season, the Singapore Open in May and the China Masters in September. They additionally completed as runners-up within the Thailand Open. 

Satwiksairaj and Chirag are at twelfth spot within the males’s doubles world rankings and a powerful end in Japan may see them climb up and qualify for the BWF World Tour Finals. 

Meanwhile, India’s two-time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu has certified for the season-ending BWF Tour Finals match following a string of robust performances within the BWF World Tour circuit.

Sindhu reached the world quantity six in girls’s singles competitors, her highest rating since December 2022 following her Hylo Open title win, making her eligible for the competitors. 

Sindhu clinched her second title of the season after defeating Denmark’s Line Kjaersfeldt 21-12, 21-14 within the girls’s singles remaining of the Hylo Open on Sunday. The two-time Olympic medallist wrapped up a dominant marketing campaign in Germany with a straight-games victory, returning to the winner’s circle every week after ending runner-up on the French Open, the place she misplaced to world No. 1 An Se Young.

She gained the BWF World Tour Finals title again in 2018.

Sindhu had earlier gained the Japan Open in July, making the Hylo Open her second title on the BWF World Tour this season. She additionally made it to the ultimate of the French Open and the semifinals of the Malaysia Open and the Australian Open. (ANI)