Badminton, Swiss Open Super 300: Kidambi Srikanth, Priyanshu Rajawat through to quarters; Sindhu out
Kiran George also made it to the men’s singles quarter-final, along with the women’s doubles team of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand.
Former world No 1 Kidambi Srikanth came up with a solid 21-16, 21-15 win over top seed Lee Zii Jia of Malaysia at the Swiss Open Super 300 in Basel on Thursday.
Priyanshu Rajawat and Kiran George also came up with wins in their respective men’s singles Round of 16 matches. The women’s doubles team of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand, seeded eighth in the tournament, beat compatriots Priya Konjengbam and Shruti Mishra 21-10, 21-12 to move to the quarter-finals.
There were however, quite a few losses for the Indian contingent as well.
Fourth seed PV Sindhu lost 21-16, 19-21, 16-21 to Japan’s Tomoka Miyazaki in a match that lasted 79 minutes.
Lakshya Sen, the seventh seed in the men’s singles draw, went down to Chinese Taipei’s Chia Hao Lee 17-21, 15-21.
In mixed doubles, B Sumeeth Reddy and Sikki Reddy were beaten 11-21, 14-21 by Dutch duo Robin Tabeling and Selena Piek, while Satish Karunakaran and Aadya Variyath lost 17-21, 14-21 to the third seeds from Malaysia Chen Tang Jie and Toh Ee Wei.
Meanwhile in women’s doubles, Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa lost to Japan’s Rui Hirokami and Yuna Kato 17-21, 16-21.
Srikanth picked up only his second win in six meetings against Lee in a match that lasted 36 minutes.
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