HYDERABAD: Top Indian shuttlers - PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal and Sameer Verma - complex to the quarterfinals of the Badminton Asia Championships in Wuhan on Thursday. Sindhu ousted Choirunnisa Choirunnisa of Indonesia 21-15, 21-19 to e book a place within the final eight.
After clinching the first sport simply, Sindhu confronted stiff problem from the lower ranked Indonesian. Trailing, Nine-15, Choirunnisa made a robust comeback to catch up with Sindhu at 17-17.
She was even leading 19-17 ahead of the Indian won 4 directly points to close out the problem. This is a wake up name for Sindhu, who will face the exciting 19-year-old two-time junior international champion Cai Yanyan of China on Friday.
Cai, who surprised Ji Hyun Sung within the first round, made short paintings of Hong Kong veteran Pui Yin Yip 21-Nine, 21-15 on Thursday. Though Sindhu defeated her on the Singapore Open lately, the reigning Australian Open champion is all the time a difficult nut to crack.
Former international No.1 Saina eased past Ga Eun Kim of South Kore 21-13, 21-13 in 38 mins. The Indian ruled from the beginning and hardly ever allowed her opponent to settle down.
The 7th seeded Indian will face 3rd seed Akane Yamaguchi on Friday. The pocket-sized Japanese shuttler enjoys a 7-2 win-loss record towards Saina. In the final six encounters, Saina defeated her only as soon as on the Denmark Open in October 2018.
It was a easy crusing for seeded players in girls's singles. Topseed Chen Yufei had a difficult 2d round match towards Gregoria Mariska Tunjung of Indonesia 15-21, 21-14, 21-15. Yufei, who will face Aya Ohori of Japan on Friday, might square up towards Saina or Yamaguchi within the semifinals.
From the bottom-half of the draw, 2d seed Nozomi Okuhara is anticipated to have a difficult quarterfinal towards 5th seed He Bingjiao of China.
The lone Indian in males's singles, Sameer had an outstanding outing towards Hong Kong's Ng Ka Long Angus 21-12, 21-19 in the second one round. On Wednesday, Angus surprised the bold Anthony Sinisuka Ginting of Indonesia within the first round.
Sameer has a difficult battle available as he's going to face crowd favorite and 2d seed Shi Yuqi of China on the final eight level.
Multiple international and Olympic champion Lin Dan was shown the door via Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei 21-10, 21-10 in the second one round.
From the top-half of the draw, international champion Kento Momota of Japan, Tien Minh Nguyen of Hong Kong, Chen Long and Lu Gaungzu of China made it to the final eight level.
The two Indian combined doubles pairs - Utkarsh Arora/Karishma Wadkar and Venkat Gaurav Prasad/Juhi Dewangan - who got a walkover within the first round lost their 2d round suits. While Venkat/Juhi lost towards Wang Yilyu/Huang Dongping of China 10-21, Nine-21, Utkarsh/Karishma went down to Hafiz Faizal and Gloria Widjaja of Indonesia 10-21, 15-21.
After clinching the first sport simply, Sindhu confronted stiff problem from the lower ranked Indonesian. Trailing, Nine-15, Choirunnisa made a robust comeback to catch up with Sindhu at 17-17.
She was even leading 19-17 ahead of the Indian won 4 directly points to close out the problem. This is a wake up name for Sindhu, who will face the exciting 19-year-old two-time junior international champion Cai Yanyan of China on Friday.
Cai, who surprised Ji Hyun Sung within the first round, made short paintings of Hong Kong veteran Pui Yin Yip 21-Nine, 21-15 on Thursday. Though Sindhu defeated her on the Singapore Open lately, the reigning Australian Open champion is all the time a difficult nut to crack.
Former international No.1 Saina eased past Ga Eun Kim of South Kore 21-13, 21-13 in 38 mins. The Indian ruled from the beginning and hardly ever allowed her opponent to settle down.
The 7th seeded Indian will face 3rd seed Akane Yamaguchi on Friday. The pocket-sized Japanese shuttler enjoys a 7-2 win-loss record towards Saina. In the final six encounters, Saina defeated her only as soon as on the Denmark Open in October 2018.
It was a easy crusing for seeded players in girls's singles. Topseed Chen Yufei had a difficult 2d round match towards Gregoria Mariska Tunjung of Indonesia 15-21, 21-14, 21-15. Yufei, who will face Aya Ohori of Japan on Friday, might square up towards Saina or Yamaguchi within the semifinals.
From the bottom-half of the draw, 2d seed Nozomi Okuhara is anticipated to have a difficult quarterfinal towards 5th seed He Bingjiao of China.
The lone Indian in males's singles, Sameer had an outstanding outing towards Hong Kong's Ng Ka Long Angus 21-12, 21-19 in the second one round. On Wednesday, Angus surprised the bold Anthony Sinisuka Ginting of Indonesia within the first round.
Sameer has a difficult battle available as he's going to face crowd favorite and 2d seed Shi Yuqi of China on the final eight level.
Multiple international and Olympic champion Lin Dan was shown the door via Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei 21-10, 21-10 in the second one round.
From the top-half of the draw, international champion Kento Momota of Japan, Tien Minh Nguyen of Hong Kong, Chen Long and Lu Gaungzu of China made it to the final eight level.
The two Indian combined doubles pairs - Utkarsh Arora/Karishma Wadkar and Venkat Gaurav Prasad/Juhi Dewangan - who got a walkover within the first round lost their 2d round suits. While Venkat/Juhi lost towards Wang Yilyu/Huang Dongping of China 10-21, Nine-21, Utkarsh/Karishma went down to Hafiz Faizal and Gloria Widjaja of Indonesia 10-21, 15-21.
Sindhu, Sameer, Saina seal quarterfinal spots at Badminton Asia Championships
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