KUALA LUMPUR – India’s two-time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu and fellow countryman HS Prannoy enter the quarter-finals of the Malaysian Badminton Championships on Thursday.
Seventh seed Sinde made short work of world number 32 Zhang Yiman’s 21-12 21-10 alliance in just 28 minutes in the women’s singles second round match.
However, stiff competition awaits the former world champion, currently ranked seventh in the world, when he takes on opponent Tai Tzu Ying of China Taipei in the quarter-finals.
Sindh are a poor 5-16 head-to-head against the world number two, who also beat the Indian in the quarter-finals of the Malaysia Open last week.
In men’s singles, Brannoy won 21-19, 21-16 over Wang Tzuwei of Chinese Taipei to book a quarter-final against Kana Tsuniyama of Japan.
However, P Sai Pranith and former Commonwealth Games champion Parupali Kashyap withdrew from the competition.
As Paneeth lost to China’s Li She Feng 14-21, 17-21 in 42 minutes, Kashyap was served 10-21, 15-21 by Indonesia’s sixth seed Anthony Sinisuka Genting.
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