Orleans [France], March 18 (ANI): Indian shuttler Aakarshi Kashyap shall be in motion in the principle draw of the continuing Orlean Masters badminton event on Wednesday after securing wins in each of her qualifier matches.
On Tuesday on the Palais des Sports in France, the world quantity 63 began off her marketing campaign with a well-fought win by 21-19, 17-21, 21-13 over compatriot Shriyanshi Valishetty in a match that lasted simply over an hour, as per Olympics.com. Later on, a victory towards Chinese Taipei’s Lee Yu-Hsuan earned her a qualification to the principle draw.
In the principle draw, she is going to tackle Commonwealth Games bronze medalist Yeo Jia Min of Singapore in spherical one.
The nation’s sole males’s singles qualifier, Sankar Subramanian, nevertheless, didn’t make a mark within the event, failing to succeed in the principle draw after a 21-12, 21-18 loss to Olympic bronze medallist Lee Zii Jia of Malaysia.
The girls’s doubles problem of India ended early in Orleans because the pairing of Ashwini Bhat and Shikha Gautam conceded a walkover towards Rui Hirokami and Sayaka Hobara of Japan within the opening spherical.
But the boys’s doubles pair of MR Arjun and Hariharan Amsakarunan gave followers one thing to cheer about, as they superior to the second spherical after Jiri Kral and Ondej Kral of Czechia retired after conceding the primary recreation.
Former world No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth, in addition to kids Ayush Shetty, Malvika Bansod, Anmol Kharb and Tanvi Sharma additionally kickstart their run in France on the BWF Super 300 event on Wednesday.
India’s big-ticket shuttlers like the boys’s duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty, two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu and Paris 2024 semi-finalist Lakshya Sen gave the event a skip. (ANI)