GUWAHATI: Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu sailed into the quarterfinals with a directly sport win but 3 pre-quarterfinals of the 83rd Senior National Badminton Championship had to be rescheduled after Saina Nehwal refused to play because of asymmetric floor of the court on Thursday.
A former champion, Sindhu, best seed, took time to get into the groove sooner than opening her marketing campaign with a 21-11 21-13 win over Nagpur's Malvika Bansod within the women's singles, whilst best seed Sameer Verma, playing the next fit at the Assam Badminton Academy courts, conceded a males's singles come upon towards Aryamann Tandon midway at 21-16 1-Eight after worrying a achilles heel downside.
Up towards Shruti Mundada within the pre-quarters, Saina then determined to have a look at the floor and made it clear that she would possibly not risk playing on that "uneven" court with the All England Championship not far away.
BAI secretary (events) Omar Rashid then postponed the three pre-quarterfinal matches, involving Saina, Parupalli Kashyap and B Sai Praneeth, to the evening session after consulting the gamers.
"The wooden planks came out at a couple of places after Sindhu played her match. So they are now going to fix it. We will come back in the evening to play our pre-quarterfinal matches," Saina's husband and fellow participant Parupalli Kashyap stated.
Like final 12 months, the gamers ranked inside of best 50 within the BWF score and best shuttlers within the BAI score, crammed up the highest 8 places, who got direct entry within the singles pre-quarterfinals after a perfect draw was once carried out on Wednesday night time.
Along with Sindhu, fourth seeded Assamese Ashmita Chaliha, third seed Shriyanshi Pardeshi, Riya Mookerjee, Aakarshi Kashyap, veteran Neha Pandit and Vaishnavi Bhale also made it to the final 8 spherical.
In males's singles, former champion Sourabh Verma, Lakshya Sen, Kaushal Dharmamer, Harsheel Dani, Aryamann Tandon and Bodhit Joshi also progressed to the quarterfinals.
Sourabh defeated Kartik Jindal 21-Eight 21-15, Lakshya brushed apart Ansal Yadav 21-11 21-Eight and Harsheel surprised fourth seed and 2018 SaarLorLux Open champion Subhankar Dey 21-15 21-17.
In males's doubles, best seeds Arjun MR and Shlok Ramchandran defeated Rohan Kapoor and Saurabh Sharma 21-11 21-18 to go into the semifinals, whilst Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Chirag Shetty were given the at an advantage veteran pair of Rupesh Kumar and V Diju 21-Eight 18-21 22-20 to make it to the final four stage.
Arun George and Sanyam Shukla and Krishna Prasad G and Dhruv Kapila also complex to the semifinals.
A former champion, Sindhu, best seed, took time to get into the groove sooner than opening her marketing campaign with a 21-11 21-13 win over Nagpur's Malvika Bansod within the women's singles, whilst best seed Sameer Verma, playing the next fit at the Assam Badminton Academy courts, conceded a males's singles come upon towards Aryamann Tandon midway at 21-16 1-Eight after worrying a achilles heel downside.
Up towards Shruti Mundada within the pre-quarters, Saina then determined to have a look at the floor and made it clear that she would possibly not risk playing on that "uneven" court with the All England Championship not far away.
BAI secretary (events) Omar Rashid then postponed the three pre-quarterfinal matches, involving Saina, Parupalli Kashyap and B Sai Praneeth, to the evening session after consulting the gamers.
"The wooden planks came out at a couple of places after Sindhu played her match. So they are now going to fix it. We will come back in the evening to play our pre-quarterfinal matches," Saina's husband and fellow participant Parupalli Kashyap stated.
Like final 12 months, the gamers ranked inside of best 50 within the BWF score and best shuttlers within the BAI score, crammed up the highest 8 places, who got direct entry within the singles pre-quarterfinals after a perfect draw was once carried out on Wednesday night time.
Along with Sindhu, fourth seeded Assamese Ashmita Chaliha, third seed Shriyanshi Pardeshi, Riya Mookerjee, Aakarshi Kashyap, veteran Neha Pandit and Vaishnavi Bhale also made it to the final 8 spherical.
In males's singles, former champion Sourabh Verma, Lakshya Sen, Kaushal Dharmamer, Harsheel Dani, Aryamann Tandon and Bodhit Joshi also progressed to the quarterfinals.
Sourabh defeated Kartik Jindal 21-Eight 21-15, Lakshya brushed apart Ansal Yadav 21-11 21-Eight and Harsheel surprised fourth seed and 2018 SaarLorLux Open champion Subhankar Dey 21-15 21-17.
In males's doubles, best seeds Arjun MR and Shlok Ramchandran defeated Rohan Kapoor and Saurabh Sharma 21-11 21-18 to go into the semifinals, whilst Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Chirag Shetty were given the at an advantage veteran pair of Rupesh Kumar and V Diju 21-Eight 18-21 22-20 to make it to the final four stage.
Arun George and Sanyam Shukla and Krishna Prasad G and Dhruv Kapila also complex to the semifinals.
Badminton Nationals: Saina refuses to play on uneven surface
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