Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], November 30 (ANI): Young Indian shuttlers Unnati Hooda and Priyanshu Rajawat shall be within the motion of their spherical of 16 matches of the continuing Syed Modi International 2023 badminton match on Thursday.
Hooda defeated Aakarshi Kashyap by 15-21, 21-19, 21-18 in a hard-fought spherical of 32 match on Wednesday and could possibly be going through former world champion Nozomi Okuhara of Japan on Thursday, as per Olympics.com.
Anupama Upadhyaya, Ashmita Chaliha, Ruthvika Shivani and Janani Ananthakumar superior to the subsequent spherical of the ladies’s singles competitors.
Priyanshu however, beat Kazakhstan’s Dimitry Panarin 21-17, 21-19 to succeed in the pre-quarters stage.
In males’s singles, Kiran George, who beat Chirag Sen by 21-16, 14-21, 21-13 and Sathish Kumar, who beat Taiwan’s Huang Yu Kai by 21-8, 21-13, additionally emerged as India’s success tales on day one.
Other males’s singles gamers like Sameer Verma, Mithun Manjunath and B Sai Praneeth did not advance to the subsequent spherical.
Another massive participant who crashed out within the first spherical apart from former world championships medalist was Kidambi Srikanth.
Srikanth continued his poor run of kind, dropping to world quantity 36 Chia Hao Lee of Taiwan 23-21, 2-8 for his fourth straight first-round exit on the Badminton World Federation (BWF) Tour.
Praneeth additionally misplaced to Twelfth-ranked Japanese shuttler Kenta Nishimoto 21-17, 21-15.
Men’s doubles pairs of Dhruv Rawat-Chirag Sen, Ayush Makhija-Venkat Gaurav Prasad and Hariharan Amsakarunan-Ruban Kumar Rethinasabapath moved to the second spherical.
Also, the ladies’s doubles duo of Ashwini Ponnappa-Tanisha Crasto and Commonwealth Games medalists Gayatri Gopichand-Treesa Jolly reached the second spherical.
Ponnappa-Crasto defeated Samriddhi Singh and Sonali Singh 21-8, 21-9 to make progress whereas Gayatri Gopichand-Treesa Jolly beat Apoorva Gahlawat and Sakshi Gahlawat 21-9, 21-16.
Among different girls’s doubles pairs in pre-quarters spherical are Simran Singhi-Ritika Thaker, Rutuparna Panda-Swetaparna Panda, Ashwini Bhat Ok-Shikha Gautam and Akshit Mahajan-Ridhi Kaur Toor.
In the combined doubles occasion, Nitin Kumar-N Manglam together with BS Reddy-N Sikki Reddy and Ashwini Ponnappa-Rohan Kapoor moved to the subsequent spherical of combined doubles on Wednesday.
The Syed Modi India International is a BWF Super 300 occasion and its outcomes will rely in the direction of gamers’ qualifying rankings for the 2024 Paris Olympics. (ANI)