Seoul [South Korea], July 20 (ANI): India’s star males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty moved to quarter-finals of the the Korea Open 2023 badminton event on Thursday. HS Prannoy and Priyanshu Rajawat exited the event within the second spherical, as per Olympics.com. Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, the third seeds and world No. 3, defeated the Sixteenth-ranked duo of He Jiting and Zhou Haodong of the Republic of China 21-17, 21-15 in 43 minutes.
Four different Indian entries enjoying within the pre-quarterfinals of the BWF Super 500 occasion misplaced their respective matches, ending India’s marketing campaign within the males’s singles, and the ladies’s and blended doubles occasions.
The Indian badminton pair will play fifth seeds Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi of Japan within the quarter-finals on Friday.
Earlier within the males’s singles, 31-year-old HS Prannoy, tenth within the badminton rankings and seeded fifth on the Korea Open, was surprised 21-15, 19-21, 21-18 by world No. 18 Lee Cheuk Yiu of Hong Kong in an hour and 6 minutes.
Priyanshu Rajawat, in the meantime, went down 21-14, 18-21, 21-17 to high seed and world No. 4 Kodai Naraoka of Japan. The 21-year-old Indian badminton participant, ranked thirty second, put up a tricky struggle however misplaced the match in an hour and 22 minutes.
In the ladies’s doubles, the Nineteenth-ranked duo of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly misplaced 21-11, 21-4 to second seeds and world No. 2 pairing of Baek Ha-na and Lee So-hee of the Republic of Korea in 33 minutes.
In the blended doubles, Rohan Kapoor and N Sikki Reddy misplaced 21-15, 21-12 to fourth seeds Feng Yanzhe and Huang Dongping of China in 35 minutes.
Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu, in the meantime, was ousted within the opening spherical after the Indian went right down to Chinese Taipei’s Pai Yu Po on Wednesday.
Results on the Korea Open rely in the direction of gamers’ qualifying rankings for the Paris 2024 Olympics. The qualification window for badminton began on May 1 this 12 months. (ANI)