Lucknow: Twice the Sindhu PV medalist almost broke any sweat but HS Prannoy had to work hard hard like two Indian badminton players developed into the quarter-finals of women and men’s singles of Syed Modi International Super 300 tournaments in Jakarta on Thursday.
The top seed Sindhu took only 33 minutes to get better than America Lauren Lam 21-16, 21-13 in her second round of matches, while the fifth seed Prannoy Staved a hard challenge from compatriot Priyanshu Rajawat before valid 21-11, 16-21 , 21-18 at BBD Indoor Stadium here.
Sindhu, a former world champion, will take six-superior Thailand Shuttler Supanida Kathethong in the last eight stage in the repetition of the Indian Open Super 500 semifinals.
The 26-year-old player from Hyderabad will be seen to arrange a straight note of the left-handed Thailand, who defeated India last week.
Prannoy, former top 10 players, will collide with France Arnaud Merkle, which ended the Indian campaign Kartikey Gulshan Kumar with a 21-8 21-12 victory in the second match of another round.
In other results, Aakarshi Kashyap and Malvika Bansod had prepared interesting quarter-final clashes against each other after the formation to win Sai Utjitha Rao Chukka’s straight match and Neleuri Prerana respectively.
While Aakarshi defeated Sai 21-9, 21-6, Malvika was defeated by Prerana 21-10, 21-8 in two lamper contests.
In another single women’s second round of the match, India Samiya Imad Farooqui beat his compatriot Kananda Kananda 21-6, 21-15 and will face Anupama Upadhyaya in another all-Indian clash.
Anupama beat SMIT Toshniwal 21-12, 21-19 in another match.
In the men’s singles, Mithun Manjunath struggled for one hour and 20 minutes before it applies 16-21, 21-16, 23-21 against Malaysia Soong Joo Ven but it was curtain for Chirag Sen, Kaushal Dharmamer and Raghu Mariswamy.
While Russia Sergey Siran was put out chirag challenges 18-21, 22-20, 21-12, Kushal lost 16-21, 13-21 for Cheam June Wei from Malaysia and Raghu fell 9-21, 9-21 for Lucas Claerbout France.
Manju will bare with Sergey next.
Fourth seeded men’s doubles pair from Mr.
Arjun and Dhruv Kapila also reached the quarterfinals after getting an easy victory from Ayush Makehija and Venkat Gaurav Prasad.
PV Sindhu, HS Prannoy Entering the Quarter Final Syed Modi
