Two-time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu’s Swiss Open performance was ended by a Japanese teenager while India’s top men’s badminton player Lakshya Sen lost in the quarter-finals of the Super 300 Championship Chinese Taipei player Li Jiahao. Indian badminton aces Kidambi Srikanth, Priyansh Rajawat and Kiran George won their respective men’s singles matches of 16 on Thursday night to advance to the quarter-finals.

After Sindhu was eliminated in the second round of the just-concluded All England Championship, she lost to Japan’s 17-year-old world champion Yuka Miyazaki 21-16 19-21 16-21, while Sen was eliminated by Li Jiahao. The round of 16 lasted only 38 minutes, and the score was 17-21 15-21.

However, Srikanth defeated Malaysia’s top seed Li Zijia 21-61 21-15 to advance to the quarter-finals, while Rajawa defeated China’s Leila Xi 21-14 21-13 to lock in the quarterfinals. . .

George struggled against French badminton player Alex Lanier before winning 18-21, 22-20, 21-18 in a grueling 71 minutes to clinch a quarter-final spot .

Srikanth will face Lee Ka-Hao, while Rajawa will face Chinese Taipei’s Chou Tien-chen in the last eight rounds. George will hope to overtake Denmark’s Rasmus Gemke to secure a place in the semi-finals.

Sindhu, who appeared to be returning to form after a long injury layoff, fought tooth and nail against her teenage opponent before bowing out in the 16th round, with the Japanese badminton player using her youthful energy to challenge the two-time Olympic medalist issued a statement.

Miyazaki, who won gold at the 2022 World Junior Championships and entered the competition after winning her first Super 300 title at the Orleans Masters in France last week, lost her first game 16-21, But a superb recovery sealed victory before winning in the 80th minute to reach the decider.

Miyazaki kept hitting the lobs, leaving Sindhu behind. The Indians had to play a lot of over-the-top returns and ended up making mistakes as the match extended.

In the end, the Japanese team got six match points. Sindhu saved two and then fired into the net.

Earlier on Thursday, Indian women’s doubles pair Theresa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand defeated compatriots Priya Koenigbaum and Shruti Mishra in straight games to advance. quarter final.

The eighth-seeded Commonwealth Games bronze medalist barely broke a sweat as she beat fellow Indians Priya and Shruti, ranked 75th in the world, 21-10 21-12 in 36 minutes.

The 26-year-old world number one Theresa and Gayatri are tied for 14th in the Olympic qualifying rankings and will face Australia’s Setiana Mapasa and Angela Yu in the next round.

World No. 20 Tanisha Krasto and Ashwini Ponnappa were 6,296 points ahead of Teresa and Gayatri in Paris qualifying for 12th place, but lost 17-21 16- 21 lost to Japan’s No. 30 Rui Hirokami and Yuna Kato.

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