PV Sindhu Exits, Satwik-Chirag Duo Enters Quarters Of Swiss Open

PV Sindhu in action © Twitter Double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu stopped working to protect her Swiss Open Super 300 badminton title as she was stunned by unseeded Putri Kusuma Wardani of Indonesia in an awesome three-game ladies’s songs 2nd round match here. World no. 9 Sindhu, seeded 4th here, was shocked 15-21 21-12 18-21 by the 38th ranked Wardani in their first-ever face-off at the global level on Thursday night. Second-seeded guys’s pairing of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty kept India’s flag flying by getting in the quarterfinals with a hard-fought 12-21 21-17 28-26 win over Taiwanese set of Fang-Chih Lee and Fang-Jen Lee. The world No. 6 Indian duo will next deal with Danish set of Jeppe Bay and Lasse Molhede later Friday. Previously on Thursday, world No. 9 and 5th seed H S Prannoy made a shock second-round exit after losing in straight video games versus unseeded Christo Popov of France. Prannoy, preferred entering the contest, looked a pale shadow of himself in front of world No. 40 Popov as he stopped working to offer any battle, losing 8-21 8-21 to bail out of the males’s songs occasion. It was Kidambi Srikanth, who was the very first to crash out on Thursday, losing to Hong Kong’s Cheuk Yiu Lee. Passing rankings, there was barely anything to separate the 2 as Srikanth is put 20th worldwide as versus his competitor’s 19th position. It was a hard-fought match, however Lee kept his composure to emerge 22-20 21-17 winner in the songs pre-quarterfinal contest. National champ Mithun Manjunath likewise bailed out in the 2nd round, losing 19-21 10-21 to Chia Hao Lee of Chinese Taipei. Subjects discussed in this post