Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth progressed to the lads’s singles quarterfinals of Madrid Masters badminton match with a straight recreation win over compatriot B Sai Praneeth right here on Thursday. World no. 21 Srikanth, seeded fifth, obtained the higher of his forty ninth ranked Indian compatriot 21-15 21-12 in a second spherical match.
Nevertheless, a troublesome contest awaits the previous world No. 1 within the quarterfinals as he’s pitted in opposition to prime seed Kenta Nishimoto of Japan. Nishimoto was handed a walkover by France’s Arnaud Merkle of their second spherical contest. Kiran George, Priyanshu Rajawat and Sameer Verma are the opposite Indian shuttlers in fray in males’s singles.
Earlier, PV Sindhu superior to the second spherical within the ladies’s singles on the Spain Masters 2023 match in Madrid on Wednesday. The 2-time Olympic medallist defeated Switzerland’s Jenjira Stadelmann 21-10, 21-14 in a 31-minute affair. Having already defeated Jenjira Stadelmann on the Swiss Open 2023, PV Sindhu has now crushed the European shuttler twice this month.
However the doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty withdrew from the match after an damage to the previous. Double Olympic medallist and former world champion Sindhu made brief work of Switzerland’s Jenjira Stadelmann 21-10 21-4.
World Championship silver medallist Srikanth defeated Sitthikom Thammassin of Thailand 21-11 25-27 23-21 in his spherical of 32 match. The Indian duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag had been up in opposition to Japanese pair Ayato Endo and Yuta Takei, solely three days after profitable a historic Swiss Open title, of their spherical of 32 match.
The Indian pair withdrew following what appeared like a knee damage to Satwiksairaj who was seen chatting with the officers and drawing their consideration to his left knee. It was in the course of the break of the primary recreation and the Indians had been trailing September 11.
In the meantime, Aakarshi Kashyap defeated sixth seed Michelle Li of Canada 12-21 21-15 21-18 in her first spherical match. Ashmita Chaliha beat Frenchwoman Leonice Huet 21-12 22-20. The ladies’s doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand misplaced their first spherical contest in opposition to Japan’s Rena Miyaura and Ayako Sakuramoto. In one other males’s singles match, B Sai Praneeth beat Jan Louda 21-16 18-21 21-12. Priyanshu Rajawat received his males’s singles match in opposition to Victor Svendsen 18-21, 21-16 21-11. Kiran George beat compatriot Mithun Manjunath 21-16, 21-14.