Malaysia Masters: HS Prannoy, Satish Karunakaran, Kidambi Srikanth Register Wins; PV Sindhu Exits

The male shuttles of India, led by the experienced duo of HS Prannoy and Kidambi Srikanth, began at a bright start, but these were curtains for a double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu while she lost with a first round defeat at the Malaysia Masters Badminton tournament in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday. Prannoy and Srikanth were joined by Satisfy Karunakaran in the second round of the event. Taking the court first, the bronze medalist in the world 2023, Prannoy, amazed at the fifth head of Kenta Nishimoto in Japan 19-21 21-17 21-16 in a difficult competition which lasted an hour and 22 minutes.

The Indian will play Yushi Tanaka from Japan in the second round.

Karunakaran, who won the Masters of Odisha 2023 and the 2024 Guwahati Masters, also recorded an upheaval by an amazing third head of Chou Tien de Tien Chinese 21-13 21-14 in just 39 minutes. He will then face Christo Popov from France.

Ayush Shetty, who had reached the semi-finals of the Taipei Open Super 300, also progressed after exceeding Brian Yang from Canada 20-22 21-10 21-8, while the number 34 World Priyanshu Rajawat made a quick release against Jia Heng Jason of Singapore 15-21.

Ayush, a bronze medalist in the 2023 junior championship, will meet Toma Junior Popov French.

Later, former world n ° 1 Srikanth, a silver medalist from the world championships in 2021, amazed a higher-end opponent in the sixth seeded Lu Guang Zu of China 23-21 13-21 21-11 in a 57-minute confrontation to progress.

GunTur’s 32 -year -old man, who is on a return trial, will then face a delicate player in Nhat Nguyen from Ireland.

But the bad form of Sindhu continued because it failed to pass the opening obstacle of the Super 500 tournament, losing 11-21 21-14 15-21 against Nguyen Thuy Linh of Vietnam.

Besides Sindhu, the other three singles players, Unnati Hooda, Aakarshi Kashyap and Malvika Bansod, have lost their opening matches too much.

Malvika went down to the number 27 worldwide Chiu Pin-Chian of Chinese-Taipei 21-19, 18-21, 8-21, while Akarshi was crushed by the Indonesian player of the eighth head of Putri Kusuma Wardani 9-21, 8-21. Unnati then lost against Lin Hsiang Ti 12-21, 20-22 of Chinese Taipei.

Dhruv Kapila’s Indian Mixed Double duo and Tanisha Crasto also moved to the second round with a victory of 21-18 15-21 21-14 against the Indonesian pair of Adnan Maulana and Indah Cahya Sari Jamil, but all the other Indian pairs have suffered defeats.

Ashith Surya and Amrutha Pramureshs were not up to the Jiang Zheng Bang and Wei Yaxin series heads, when they lost 10-21 12-21 during the opening round of the mixed double event.

Rohan Kapoor and Ruthvika Shivani Gadde lost too much 10-21 14-21 at the fourth head of Guo Xin Wa and Chen Fang Hui de China.

The association of Karunakaran and Aadya Variyath was shown by the glass door Yustin Mulia in Indonesia and Lisa Ayu Kusumawati 15-21 16-21.