Star Indian shuttler HS Prannoy beat All England Championships finalist Shi Yu Qi of China to storm into the lads’s singles pre-quarterfinals on the Swiss Open Tremendous 300 badminton event right here.
World quantity 9 Prannoy continued his good run as he recovered from a second recreation stoop to notch up a 21-17 19-21 21-17 win over Shi Yu Qi, who’s a 2018 world championships silver medallist, within the males’s singles opening spherical.
Two-time Olympic medallist and fourth seed PV Sindhu too made a constructive begin to her title defence, beating Jenjira Stadelmann of Switzerland 21-9 21-16 in a lop-sided opening spherical of ladies’s singles.
Prannoy will subsequent face France’s Christo Popov, whereas Sindhu will tackle 20-year-old Indonesian Putri Kusuma Wardani, who was a part of the gold medal profitable staff of the 2022 Asia Staff Championships.
Additionally in motion on Thursday will probably be Kidambi Srikanth towards Hong Kong’s Lee Cheuk Yiu. Nationwide champion Mithun Manjunath takes on Chia Hao Lee of Chinese language Taipei and second seeded males’s pairing of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will face Taiwanese pair of Fang-Chih Lee and Fang-Jen Lee.