Sydney [Australia], November 19 (ANI): Indian shuttlers had an excellent outing within the opening spherical on the Australian Open 2025 badminton event in Sydney, with Lakshya Sen, HS Prannoy and Kidambi Srikanth advancing to the boys’s singles second spherical of the BWF Super 500 occasion on Wednesday.
Paris Olympics 2024 semi-finalist Lakshya defeated Chinese Taipei’s Su Li-yang by a 21-17, 21-13 scoreline in a one-sided 43-minute sport to advance to the subsequent spherical.
Prannoy, enjoying his second event on the BWF World Tour after overcoming harm, beat Indonesia’s Yohanes Saut Marcellyno 6-21, 21-12, 21-17.
Former World No. 1 Srikanth booked his place within the spherical of 16 after defeating Chinese Taipei’s Lee Chia-hao 21-19, 19-21, 21-15 in an exhilarating battle that went over an hour.
Apart from these three, Other Indian shuttlers, Ayush Shetty and Tharun Mannepalli, additionally gained their respective males’s singles matches to march into the pre-quarterfinals of the continued event.
Tharun overcame Denmark’s Magnus Johannesen 21-13, 17-21, 21-19 in a intently fought sport.
Ayush, alternatively, thrashed Canada’s Sam Yuan 21-11, 21-15 scoreline. The sport lasted simply 33 minutes. Shetty will go up in opposition to Japanese ace Koadi Naraoka within the subsequent spherical.
India’s solely defeat in males’s singles got here when Kiran George misplaced to Kenta Nishimoto, of Japan. The ultimate scoreline was 11-21, 24-22, 21-17.
Mohit and Lakshita Jaglan suffered a 21-21, 21-16 defeat to Canadian duo Nyl Yakura and Crystal Lai within the blended occasion.
This leaves Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty the one Indian doubles pair within the Australian Open this 12 months.
SatChi, who gained their males’s doubles opener on Tuesday, will face Chinese Taipei’s Su Ching heng and Wu Guan-Xun in pre-quarterfinals.
India’s ladies’s doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand bowed out of the occasion on Tuesday. The Indian pair misplaced a one-sided match in opposition to Febriana Dwipuji Kusuma and Meilysa Trias Puspita Sari of Indonesia. (ANI)