Thailand Open: PV Sindhu, Sameer sail into quarter-finals; HS Prannoy bows out

Indian shuttlers PV Sindhu and Sameer Verma stormed into the quarterfinals of the Toyota Thailand Open after registering straightgame wins but HS Prannoy bowed out of Super 1000 tournament here on TuesdayOlympic silver medallist Sindhu expectedly outclassed Malaysias world no 92 Kisona Selvaduray 2110 2112 in a lopsided secondround contest that lasted just 35 minutes She will face either Thailands Ratchanok Inthanon or Koreas Sung Ji Hyun next The first game was pretty easy and in the second I had to play with the wind and really control my strokes I made some simple errors in the second game and they were ones I should not have made at all There was too much wind in the second game and I was being careful Sindhu saidI was remembering last weeks tournament and each point was really important for me We all win and lose so I took last week in a really positive way and came in much stronger this week Overall its a good win and Im really looking forward to the next round World no 31 Sameer also continued his impressive run stunning world no 17 Rasmus Gemke 2112 219 in just 39 minutes for his third victory over the Danish player The Indian who had shocked Malaysias eighth seed Lee Zii Jia in the opening round will face third seed Anders Antonsen of Denmark who received a walkover in the quarterfinals I was very confident before the match I came prepared Next up I have Anders Antonsen from Denmark Im feeling very confident so lets see It will be tough but I will play my best Sameer said The mixed doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa also made it to the quarterfinals with a stunning 2220 1421 2116 win over world no 17 German duo of Mark Lamsfuss and Isabel Herttrich in a match that lasted close to an hour Satwiksairaj also paired up with Chirag Shetty in the mens doubles to notch up an upset 2118 2321 win over seven seeds Korean combination of Choi Solgyu and Seo Seung Jae We served and received pretty well that made the difference for us Overall we are getting back to the way we were playing in 2019 said Chirag Satwik said he was very happy with the performanceWe want to play our game We want to be our best on the day We were lacking in service and returns in our last match We didnt want to make the same mistakes in this match he said Prannoy however failed to cross the second round hurdle going down 1721 1821 to Malaysias Daren Liew a day after battling through pain to upstage Asian Games champion Jonatan Christie in a gruelling threegame match Also bowing out of the competition were MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila after losing 921 1121 to English pair of Ben Lane and Sean Vendy Earlier Gemke was no match for Sameer who showed better control and execution to dominate the proceedings right from the beginning The Indian opened up a 30 lead and kept marching ahead to grab a sixpoint advantage at the break Gemke tried his best but couldnt trouble Sameer who easily claimed the first game In the second game Gemke managed to hold slender leads of 31 and 53 but Sameer broke off at 66 and never looked backSrikanth Praneeth in quarantineBadminton World Championship bronze medallist B Sai Praneeth and former World No 1 Kidambi Srikanth roommates for the ongoing Thailand Open are in a minimum 10day quarantine in their hotel in that city after the former tested Covidpositive Srikanth won his firstround match but now both are out of the competitionThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever