Swiss Open: Srikanth, Satwik-Ashwini pair by means of to second spherical

Top Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth staved off a spirited problem from compatriot Sameer Verma to make a successful begin to his marketing campaign on the Swiss Open Super 300 event on Wednesday.
The fourth seeded Indian, who had claimed the title in 2015, took little over an hour to see off 2018 winner Sameer 18-21 21-18 21-11 in a hard-fought males’s singles opening spherical match.
World no. 13 Srikanth, an Olympic hopeful, might be up in opposition to France’s Thomas Rouxel within the Round of 16. Rouxel beat Canada’s Xiaodong Sheng 21-18 21-14 in one other first spherical match.
Sourabh Verma additionally gained his first spherical match in opposition to Switzerland’s Christian Kirchmayr 21-19 21-18. He faces eight seed Kunlavut Vitidsarn of Thailand within the Round of 16.
However, H S Prannoy made an early exit after dropping to France’s Mark Calijouw 19-21 21-9 17-21 in a males’s singles first spherical match.
Last night time, Indian blended doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa notched up an upset 21-18 21-10 win over the world no 8 and second-seeded Indonesian pair of Hafiz Faizal and Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja within the opening spherical.
Satwik and Ashwini, who reached the semifinals of the Toyota Thailand Open Super 1000 occasion in January, had earlier defeated the Indonesian mixture on the Yonex Thailand Open in an exhilarating three-game match in January.
The world no 19 duo, who’ve been coaching below new overseas coach Mathias Boe for the final one month, will face one other Indonesian pair — Rinov Rivaldy and Pitha Haningtyas Mentari — subsequent.
The second seeded Indian pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty additionally gained their first spherical males’s doubles match in opposition to Christopher Grimley and Matthew Grimley of Scotland 21-18 19-21 21-16.
Another Indian shuttler, Pranaav Jerry Chopra, who was returning to motion after a COVID-19 pandemic break, didn’t have a very good outing as he alongside together with his blended doubles accomplice N Sikki Reddy misplaced 18-21 15-21 to the third-seeded English pair of Marcus Ellis and Lauren Smith in 39 minutes.
Swiss Open is the primary occasion of the prolonged Olympic qualification interval which can finish on June 15.