Indian shuttlers HS Prannoy and Parupalli Kashyap cruised into the lads’s singles pre-quarterfinals of the Taipei Open with straight sport wins over their respective rivals right here on Wednesday.
World quantity 9 Prannoy hardly broke a sweat as he took simply 26 minutes to dispatch native shuttler Lin Yu-hsien 21-11 21-10 within the opening spherical of the BWF World Tour Super 300 match.
The third-seeded Prannoy, who claimed the Malaysia Masters Super 300 title final month, will subsequent tackle Indonesia’s Tommy Sugiarto within the males’s singles second spherical.
Former Commonwealth Games gold medallist Kashyap too notched up a simple 21-15 21-16 over Germany’s Samuel Hsiao. He will tackle native favorite Su Li Yang within the pre-quarterfinals.
National champion Mithun Manjunath put up a splendid combat earlier than happening to second-seed and native favorite Chou Tien Chen 18-21 21-14 16-21 in a one-hour 11 minutes battle.
Tanya Hemanth was the lone Indian to win within the ladies’s singles as she handed a 21-7 21-17 loss to Agnes Korosi of Hungary.
But a tricky second spherical awaits the 19-year-old Indian as she is up towards World Championship and Olympic silver medallist Tai Tzu Ying, the match top-seed.
In the combined doubles, Sikki Reddy and Rohan Kapoor beat compatriots Navaneeth Bokka and Priya Konjengbam 21-14 21-17 in all-Indian tie.
Sikki and Rohan will meet Chiu Hsiang Chieh and Lin Xiao Min within the pre-quarters.
However, it was the tip of the highway for S Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian, Kiren George, Meiraba Luwang Maisnam, Sathish Kumar Karunakaran, Ruthvika Shivani Gadde and Akarshi Kashyap.
Subramanian offered some resistance within the opening sport however was fully outplayed within the second sport by sixth seed Japanese shuttler Kanta Tsunyama to go down 13-21 5-21 in his males’s singles opening spherical.
Kiren, alternatively, fought laborious earlier than going to Malaysia’s Leoong Jun Hao 20-22 21-12 9-21 whereas Meiraba Luwang Maisnam misplaced to fifth seed Hong Kong shuttler NG Ka Long Angus 18-21 17-2.
Sathish was handed a straight sport (10-21 10-21) defeat by native favorite Chi Yu Jen.
Among ladies, Gadde misplaced to native shuttler Chiu Pin-Chian 12-21 5-21 whereas Akarshi squandered a one sport result in lose 21-10 16-21 11-21 to Huang Yu-Hsun.
The BWF World Tour is split into six ranges, specifically World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, and Super 300 so as.
One different class of match, the BWF Tour Super 100 stage, additionally gives rating factors. Each of those tournaments gives totally different rating factors and prize cash.