Tokyo Olympian B Sai Praneeth suffered a shock defeat by the hands of fellow Indian Rithvik Sanjeevi Satish Kumar within the males’s singles second spherical on the Vietnam Open Super 100 badminton event on Wednesday.
A former World Championships bronze medallist, Praneeth, who has been struggling for kind for the final 12 months, misplaced 21-17, 18-21, and 13-21 to Satish Kumar to make one other early exit from the event.
Satish Kumar, who completed runner-up on the Bangladesh International Challenge in December final 12 months, will now face Malaysia’s Ong Ken Yon subsequent.
In different ends in the lads’s singles, Meiraba Luwang Maisnam eked out an exhilarating 21-16 18-21 21-14 win over Malaysia’s Kok Jing Hong to arrange a combat with Chinese Taipei’s Chi Yu Jen, who beat India’s eighth seed Mithun Manjunath 21-17 21-7 in one other match.
S Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian additionally notched up a sensational win over Indonesian veteran Tommy Sugiarto 14-21, 22-20, 21-12 within the second spherical.
He will subsequent meet Chinese Chia Hao, who defeated India’s Raghu Mariswamy 21-16, 21-15 in a lop-sided contest.
Harshit Aggarwal defeated Mongolia’s Batdavaa Munkhbat 21-15, 21-13 to be pitted in opposition to Japan’s third seed Kodai Naraoka within the third spherical.
Kiran Kumar Mekala noticed off Myanmar’s Phone Pyae Naing 16-21, 21-14 and 21-19, and can face Malaysia’s Cheam June Wei subsequent.
In the ladies’s singles, Ruthvika Shivani Gadde progressed to the pre-quarterfinals after getting a walkover from his opponent and can face Vietnam’s Thi Trang (B) Vu subsequent.
Prerana Neeluri will meet prime seed Aya Ohori of Japan within the second spherical after she opened her marketing campaign with a 21-16 21-14 win over native participant Thi Ngoc Lan Nguyen.
Ira Sharma and Rituparna Das additionally made it to the second spherical with straight recreation wins.
While Ira beat Vietnam’s Thi Anh Tran 21-13 21-14, Rituparna defeated one other Vietnamese in Bich Phuong Bhi 21-12 21-17.
The combined doubles pair of N Sikki Reddy and Rohan Kapoor superior to the second spherical after beating compatriots Hariharan Amsakarunan and SS Lakshmi Priyanka Subramanian 14-21 21-9 21-12.
Another Indian pair of Bokka Navaneeth and Priya Konjengbam additionally progressed to the second spherical.
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