Ace Indian Shuttler Kidambi Srikanth progressed in the quarter-finals of the Malaysia Masters 2025 badminton tournament in Bukit Jalil, while HS Prannoy lost its pre-arterfinal clash, according to the Olympics.com. Former world n ° 1 Srikantth, currently 65th in the badminton classification, suffered a difficult battle against Nhat Nguyen Irish before winning a 23-21, 21-17 victory at the Axiata Arena KL Sports stadium. The competition lasted almost an hour. Nhat Nguyen, the world’s n ° 33, dominated the first exchanges and led 11-4 at the interval of the first match. The Indian badminton player, however, completely overturned the script to record an exciting victory.
Srikanth’s opponent in the neighborhoods of the BWF Super 500 tournament will be Toma Junior Popov in France, who beat the Indian badminton player Ayush Shetty, 21-13, 21-17, in another 16-year-old match.
The Sathish of India Karunakaran also bowed after dropping 21-14, 21-16 to Christo Popov, Toma’s brother and Double partner.
The HS Prannoy N ° 35 race in Masters in Malaysia also ended with pre-quarters with a defeat of 21-9, 21-18 against Yushi Tanaka in the 23rd row in a 39-minute meeting.
The three outings leave Srikanth as the only challenge in single from India to this year’s Masters Masters.
None of the players of Indian singles in action, including the double winner of the Olympic medal, PV Sindhu, managed to cross the first obstacle.
Meanwhile, the double challenge of India will also be a matter to a front from now on, Tanisha Crasto and Dhruv Kapila making the top eight of the mixed category.
The Indian duo defeated France Lea Palermo and Julien Maio 21-17, 18-21, 21-15 in a hard match to organize a meeting in the quarter-finals against the People’s Republic of China Jiang Zhenbang and Wei Yaxin, bronze medalists of the 2023 World Championships.
The course of Prerana Alvekar and Mrunmayee Deshpande in female double ended after a 21-9, 21-14 defeat against Hsu Yin-Hui and Lin Jhih-Yun of Chinese Taipei, the n ° 17 and the eighth heads.
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