Global Championships silver medallist Kidambi Srikanth staved off aspirited problem from France’s Christo Popov to development to the lads’s singles quarterfinals of the Swiss Open Tremendous 300 event right here on Thursday.
Global no 12 Srikanth, who had ignored India leg of the BWF excursion in January after checking out sure for COVID-19, eked out a combating 13-21 25-23 21-11 win over Popov, ranked sixtieth, in a second-round fit that lasted an hour and 13 mins.
The 7th seeded Indian will face moment seeded Dane Anders Antonsen subsequent.
Former Commonwealth Video games gold medallist Parupalli Kashyap too entered the quarterfinals after best seed and Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen gave a walkover.
3rd seeds Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, alternatively, misplaced 19-21 20-22 to Indonesian pairing of Pramudya Kusumawardana and Yeremia Erich Yoche Yacob Rambitan within the males’s doubles.
Within the ladies’s singles, Ashmita Chaliha publish a tricky battle prior to happening 18-21 20-22 to 8th seeded Scot Kirsty Gilmour in the second one around.
On Wednesday night time, Sindhu had entered the second one around with a 21-14 21-12 win over Denmark’s Line Hojmark Kjaersfeldt right here.
Sindhu, additionally a former global champion, will face Neslihan Yigit of Turkey overdue within the day.
Additionally progressing used to be the ladies’s doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy, who were given the easier of native pair Aline Muller and Jenjira Stadelmann 21-15 21-16 in immediately video games.
