Indian shuttlers PV Sindhu, Kidambi Srikanth and HS Prannoy registered comparable come-from-behind victories of their respective occasions to advance to the quarterfinals of the Indonesia Masters Super 750 badminton match right here on Thursday.
The spotlight of the day was Prannoy’s gorgeous 14-21 21-19 21-16 upset victory over Tokyo Olympics gold medallist Victor Axelsen in a tense one hour 11 minutes battle within the the lads’s singles second spherical.
Down and out within the first recreation, Prannoy made a sensational restoration to first degree the match after which eke out a memorable win in opposition to the world no 2.
This was Prannoy’s first victory in six makes an attempt in opposition to Axelsen. With the win, the world no 32 Indian shuttler turns into the primary participant to beat the Dane in full a match since March.
In the ladies’s singles, reining wold champion Sindhu, who’s seeded third, took 47 minutes to document a 17-21 21-7 21-12 win over Spain’s Clara Azurmendi.
Playing in opposition to the world no 47 Azurmendi for the primary time, Sindhu went down within the first recreation earlier than placing up a dominant efficiency within the subsequent two video games to register an excellent victory.
The two-time Olympic medallist will now lock horns with world no 30 unseeded Turkish shuttler Neslihan Yigit within the quarterfinals. Sindhu has a 3-0 head-to-head document in opposition to the Turkish.
On the opposite hand, former world no 1 Srikanth, dispatched Indonesia’s sixth seed Jonatan Christie 13-21 21-18 21-15 in a single hour two minutes within the males’s singles second spherical fixture.
The unseeded Srikanth, who had claimed the Indonesia Open Super Series premier in 2017 at Jakarta, will tackle Prannoy within the quarterfinals.
However, it was curtains for younger Lakshya Sen the lads’s singles occasion and the blended doubles pairing of Dhruv Kapila and N Sikki Reddy.
The 20-year-old Lakshya, who had reached the semi-finals at Hylo Open Super 500 and last of Dutch Open not too long ago, went down 13-21 19-21 to the highest seed and two-time world champion Kento Momota of Japan in a 46-minute conflict.
Kapila and Sikki, alternatively, misplaced a tough fought 15-21 23-21 18-21 battle to Thai duo of Supak Jomkoh and Supissara Paewsampran within the second spherical blended doubles match.
Women’s doubles pair of Ashwini Ponappa and N Sikki Reddy additionally crashed out of the occasion within the second spherical third seeds Jongkolphan Kititharakul and Rawinda Prajongjai 18-21 12-21.
