Malaysia Masters: Sindhu, Praneeth, Kashyap move to second round

Published:Mar 9, 202409:50
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Malaysia Masters: Sindhu, Praneeth, Kashyap move to second round

Two-time Olympic medallist P. V. Sindhu was made to toil laborious by China's He Bing Jiao earlier than rising victorious within the opening spherical of the Malaysia Masters, whereas compatriot Saina Nehwal made a second consecutive first-round exit on Wednesday.

The seventh seed Sindhu took near an hour to knock out Bing Jiao 21-13, 17-21, 21-15 and transfer to the second spherical.

By advantage of the win, the world quantity seven Sindhu exacted revenge for her first spherical exit from the Indonesia Open Tremendous 1000 final month when Bing Jiao had defeated her in straight video games. The Chinese language nonetheless leads the face to face 10-9.

London Olympics bronze medallist Saina, alternatively, squandered a one-game result in go down 21-16, 17-21, 14-21 to Kim Ga Eun of South Korea.

The world quantity 24 Indian had additionally made a first-round exit from the Malaysia Open Tremendous 750 event final week.

Within the males's singles, B Sai Praneeth and Parupalli Kashyap moved to the second spherical with contrasting wins.

Prannoy regains his place in world's prime 20  

Whereas Verma broke hardly broke a sweat towards Kevin Cordon, registering a straightforward 21-8, 21-9 win over Guatemalan in lower than half an hour, Kashyap got here again from a one-game deficit to dispatch native favorite Tommy Sugiarto 16-21 21-16 21-16.

Verma will tackle Li Shi Feng within the pre-quarterfinals.

Nevertheless, it was the tip of the street for Sameer Verma, who went down combating to fourth seed Chinese language Taipei shuttler Chou Tien Chen 21-10, 12-21, 14-21.

Later within the day, HS Prannoy, Saina Nehwal and the ladies's doubles pair of N Sikki Reddy and Ashwini Ponnappa will probably be in motion.


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