P V Sindhu, B Sai Praneeth, Ajay Jayaram win at World Championships

Glasgow, Aug 22 Indians proceeded with their good run at the World Badminton Championship with P V Sindhu, B Sai Praneeth and Ajay Jayaram enlisting straight diversion triumphs in singles events here today.

Olympic silver medallist Sindhu, who got a bye in the first round, cutting edge to the pre-quarterfinals of the women's singles rivalry in the wake of overcoming Korea's Kim Hyo Min in the second round.

Sindhu, who twice won bronze medals at the 2013 and 2014 editions, scored up a 21-16 21-14 win upon Kim in a 49-minute match, to stretch out her head-to-head record against the Korean to 4-1 out of five meetings.

The 22-year-old will confront either Russian's Evgeniya Kosetskaya or Hong Kong's Cheung Ngan Yi, thirteenth seed, in the next round.

"I could see she (Kim) was worn out by the end. She was playing long revives and I approved of it. I last played her a year back, so I knew her game," Sindhu said.

On whether she was happy with long rallies, Sindhu smiled and said, "That was not my thought. Despite everything I needed to complete quick."

Singapore Open champion Praneeth made a positive start to his campaign, enlisting a straight-game prevail upon Hong Kong's Wei Nan to achieve the second round of men's singles event.

Praneeth, seeded fifteenth, battled over from 5-9 and 14-16 shortage in the opening game and 10-13 and 15-17 in the second however battled back to eventually see off Wei Nan 21-18 21-17 of every a 48-minute match.

The 25-year-old from Hyderabad will next go up against Indonesia's Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, who is the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic and World Junior Championships boys' singles bronze medallist.

"I was expecting an intense match. I changed my amusement however the match was drawing near. He committed some little errors and I won. I am upbeat that I could pull off the match today as I probably am aware this is an intense match. Tomorrow it would be another troublesome match and I trust I can win," Praneeth told.

Experienced shuttler Ajay Jayaram additionally delivered a commanding execution to storm into the second round with a 21-14 21-12 prevail upon Austria's Luka Wraber. He will go up against The Netherland's Mark Caljouw next.

Women's doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy crushed Indonesian-Malaysian combo of Ririn Amelia and Anna Ching Yik Cheong 21-15 21-13 to make a brilliant begin to their battle.

India's best mixed doubles pair of Pranaav Jerry Chopra and N Sikki Reddy, seeded fifteenth, who had won the Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold title, additionally crushed Indo-Malaysian combo of Prajakta Sawant and Yogendran Khrishnan 21-12 21-19 to achieve the next round.

Be that as it may, disappointment was at store for India in the other bmixed doubles matches as B Sumeeth Reddy and Ashwini, and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Maneesha K endured differentiating misfortunes to bow out of the tournament.

Sumeeth and Ashwini, who had reached the finals of Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold in January, went down battling 17 21-18 5-21 to thirteenth seeded Chinese match of Wang Yilyu and Huang Dongping, while Satwiksairaj and Maneesha lost 20-22 18-21 to fourteenth seeded Denmark couple of Mathias Christiansen and Sara Thygesen.

The men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj and Chirag Shetty likewise found the going intense against Japanese combo of Hiroyuki Endo and Yuta Watanabe, losing 8-21 12-21 out of a 32 minute match.

In the ladies' singles, Sindhu turned out all barrels blasting as she doled out an overwhelming diversion to zoom to a 8-0 lead in the principal amusement. Kim Hyo Min attempted to break the restricted activity and won four straight focuses yet the Indian snatched an agreeable 11-5 lead.

The Korean diminished the crevice to 8-12 after the break yet a decided Sindhu kept on pushing forward and achieved 16-10 at one phase. She in the end took a 20-14 lead. Kim spared two amusement focuses before the Indian fixed the opening diversion.

The last time Sindhu had confronted Kim, she had endured a straight-diversion overcome in 2016 Australian Open and the Indian was resolved to not permit any hiccups today.

In the second game, Sindhu once again opened up a 8-3 lead. The Korean figured out how to lessen the edge to 8-10 yet the Indian didn't allow Kim toput up a challenge as she kept on surging ahead, reaching 19-12.

Sindhu at that point fixed the issue in the long run without much ado, snatching the final two points.


National champion Rituparna Das also developed triumphs in her opening round match yesterday as her rival, Finland's Airi Mikkela resigned subsequent to trailing 0-2 in the first game.