IMAGE: P V Sindhu took simply 33 minutes to get the higher of China’s Han Yue in Dubai on Thursday. Photograph: Eddie Keogh/Getty Images
Two-time Olympic medallist P V Sindhu sailed into the quarter-finals within the singles occasion on the Badminton Asia Championships with a straightforward victory over China’s Han Yue in Dubai on Thursday.
Besides Sindhu, India’s ace males’s singles shuttler HS Prannoy battled his manner into the quarters however it was curtains for compatriot Kidambi Srikanth.
While Prannoy, seeded eighth, needed to battle it out for an hour and two minutes to prevail over Indonesian Chico Aura Dwi Wardoyo 16-21, 21-5, 18-21 in a spherical of 16 match, Srikanth was proven the door by fourth seeded Japanese Kodai Naraoka 14-21, 22-20, 9-21.
Prannoy will subsequent tackle Kanta Tsuneyama of Japan.
Sindhu was at her deadly greatest as she took simply 33 minutes to beat Yue 21-12, 21-15 within the spherical of 16 match.
Eight seed Sindhu will play second seed An Se Young of Korea within the quarters.
In the combined doubles, Rohan Kapoor and N Sikki Reddy entered the final eight after the fourth seeded Korean pair of Seo Seung Jae Chae Yu Jung handed the Indians a walkover.
The Indian duo will subsequent meet Indonesian pair of Dejan Ferdinansyah Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja.
However, it was curtains for B Sumeeth Reddy and Ashwini Ponnappa from the combined doubles as thy misplaced 15-21, 17-21.
The sixth-seeded Indian pair of Sankireddy and Chirag Shetty additionally progressed to the quarters of the lads’s doubles occasion with a convincing 21-13, 21-11 win over Jin Yong and Na Sung Seung.
The Indian mixture will tackle third-seeded Indonesian pair of Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan.
