India’s prime males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will likely be in motion throughout quarterfinals of the continuing China Masters badminton match on Friday following their triumphant return to the game on Thursday. ‘Sat-Chi’ performed their first match since their Paris Olympics 2024 heartbreak. Satwiksairaj additionally recovered from an damage to make himself out there for the match. The duo secured a 21-19, 21-15 win over Fifteenth-ranked Rasmus Kjaer and Frederik Sogaard of Denmark, as per Olympics.com.
The reigning Asian Video games champions from India will likely be going through Denmark’s Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen of their quarterfinal match.
Additionally, the two-time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu continued her Badminton World Federation (BWF) title drought, dropping to world quantity 13, Singapore’s Yeo Jia Min in a hard-fought contest by 21-16, 17-21, 23-21 scoreline.
The match was an up-and-down affair, with scores as soon as degree at 15-all within the opening sport earlier than Yeo took a lead and gained. Sindhu fought again within the subsequent closely-contested sport and gained it. Within the decider, the Indian managed the sport with a 13-9 lead earlier than her opponent fought again. Sindhu did save 4 match factors, however Yeo sealed the competition in a single hour and 9 minutes.
That is Sindhu’s first loss to Yeo in six matches, as she continues her seek for a BWF title, the final one being the Singapore Open title win final yr. She final made it to the finals of a BWF occasion throughout the Malaysia Masters in Might this yr.
Paris Olympics 2024 semifinalist Lakshya Sen additionally beat Denmark’s world quantity 30 Rasmus Gemke with a scoreline of 21-16, 21-18 scoreline. His subsequent opponent will likely be Denmark’s Anders Antonsen within the quarterfinals.
Nevertheless, the day additionally noticed India’s combined doubles pair of B Sumeeth Reddy-N Sikki Reddy, ladies’s singles gamers Anupama Upadhyaya, and Malvika Bansod and ladies’s doubles duo of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand.
B Sumeeth Reddy-N Sikki Reddy handed a walkover to Chinese language prime seeds Feng Yan Zhe-Huang Dong Ping. Anupama Upadhyaya was defeated by Natsuki Nidaira of Japan 21-7, 21-14 whereas Malvika Bansod succumbed to a 21-9, 21-9 defeat to eighth-seeded Thai shuttler Supanida Katethong.
Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand went down 21-16, 21-11 to the second-seeded Chinese language pair of Liu Sheng Shu and Tan Ning.
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