BADMINTON Indonesia Open

[Anup Tiwari]

Sindhu lost a gruelling first round
contest 21-16, 15-21, 14-21 in 49
minutes to Chinese Taipei's Ya Ching
Hsu, who will now face London
Olympics bronze medallist, Saina for
a place in the women's singles
quarterfinals.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

World No. 12 Kashyap overcame
Thailand's Tanongsak
Saensomboonsuk 21-17, 21-7 in just
29 minutes, while Srikanth had a
tough outing against Danish Hans-
Kristian Vittinghus, ranked 15th in
the world.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

World no. 4 Srikanth, however,
managed to prevail over Vittinghus
11-21, 21-14, 24-22 in a battle that
lasted 50 minutes.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

In men's doubles, Indian duo of
Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Akshay
Dewalkar got the better of Canadian
pair of Adrian Liu and Derrick Ng
21-17, 22-20 in 35 minutes to enter
the second round.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

the combo of Manu Attri and B
Sumeeth Reddy went down to fourth
seeded Chinese Taipei duo of Lee
Sheng Mu and Tsai Chia Hsin 13-21,
11-21 in just 26 minutes.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Saina Nehwal, Parupalli Kashyap
advance;

 

[Anup Tiwari]

JAKARTA: Saina Nehwal breezed past
Chinese Taipei's Hsu Ya Ching while
Parupalli Kashyap stunned World No.
5 Son Wan Ho in straight games to
make it to the quarterfinals of the
Indonesia Open Super Series

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Kashyap, meanwhile, upstaged Ho
21-11, 21-14 in just 36 minutes and
will face top seed Chen Long in the
men's singles quarterfinal.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Star women's doubles combo of
Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa
lost the second round match to
seventh seeded local favourites Yu
Yang and Zhong Qianxin 8-21, 18-21
in 29 minutes to crash out of the
tournament.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Akshay
Dewalkar went down to fifth seeded
Chinese pair of Chai Biao and Hong
Wei 13-21, 11-21 in the second
round of men's doubles.