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Jakarta, July 5
PV Sindhu celebrated her 23rd birthday with a straight-game win over Japan’s Aya Ohori, while HS Prannoy eked out a three-game victory over Wang Tzu Wei of Chinese Taipei to enter the quarterfinals of the $1,250,000 Indonesia Open. Sindhu defeated Ohori, ranked 17th, 21-17 21-14 in a 36-minute women’s singles match. This is Sindhu’s fifth win over the Japanese in as many meetings. The Indian will face China’s He Bingjiao next.
Prannoy recovered from an opening game loss to outwit Wang 21-23 21-15 21-13 in an entertaining contest that lasted an hour. He will meet third seed Shi Yuqi of China tomorrow.
However, Saina Nehwal couldn’t get past fifth seed Chen Yufei, losing 18-21 15-21 to the world No. 5 Chinese in a 40-minute contest. Interestingly, Saina had defeated Chen at the same venue during the Indonesia Masters early in the year. Sameer Verma also failed to put much of a fight against Viktor Axelsen, going down 15-21 14-21 to the reigning world champion. — PTI
Srikanth returns to top-5; Saina moves up
Kidambi Srikanth reclaimed his place in top-5 following his semifinal finish at the Malaysia Open while Saina Nehwal gained a spot to be No. 9 in the latest BWF rankings. PV Sindhu remained unchanged at No. 3 in the women’s singles. HS Prannoy dropped one spot to 14th while Sameer Verma was ranked 20th, just ahead of B Sai Praneeth.
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