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PV Sindhu and Sameer Verma started their Hong Kong Open campaign with a positive result as both qualified for the second round of the women's singles and men's singles, respectively, in Kowloon on Wednesday.
B Sai Praneeth and Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy, women's pair doubles, were eliminated from the tournament after a first-round defeat.
Later in the day, the men's doubles duo Sueeth Reddy and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty will be at the rendezvous. against Thailand's Bodin Isara-Maneepong Jongjit and Denmark's Mathias Boe-Carsten Mogensen, respectively.
In singles, Kidambi Srikanth will face Indonesian Wong Wing Ki Vincent, Parupalli Kashyap and South African Anthony Sinisuka Ginting. Prannoy will face Denmark's Anders Antonsen. Saina Nehwal will then continue against Japan's Akane Yamaguchi.
PV Sindhu is well beaten for a 21-15, 13-21, 21-17 victory over Thai Nitchaon Jindapol and has qualified for the second round of the tournament on Wednesday.
Sindhu needs a minute and an hour to overtake Jindapol in a game that takes place in three well-contested games.
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Sindhu has the match started with a solid 21-15 win over Jindapol in the opening game. However, she dropped her intensity in the second round and was dominated 13-21 by Jindapol.
In the last game, he stayed almost until the end before Sindhu regained his touch and took the match at 21-17.
Sindhu will then meet South Korean Sung Ji Hyun, who had already beaten Japan's Aya Ohori 21-10, 21-12. Sindhu leads Sung 8 to 5 in his record, but has a win and a defeat this year against the Korean.
Sameer Verma also made a good start to Hong Kong with a comfortable record of 21-17, 21 -14 victory over Thai Suppanyu Avihingsanon. Sameer, who reached the quarter-finals in Denmark before losing to compatriot Srikanth, took only 40 minutes to win for his first-round match.
Sameer Verma will face China's Chen Long in the second round of the Hong Kong Open. (@India_AllSports Photo)
Avihingsanon kept in touch with Sameer in the first game and the Indian outshot the Thai, but Sameer was much more in control in the second game and won an easy victory.
Sameer has a solid The task ahead of him in the second round against China's Olympic champion and French Open winner Chen Long.
The first time Sameer was playing against Chen Long was back in 2015 and the Indian had lost.
SAI PRANEETH, ASHWINI-SIKKI LOSE
Sai Praneeth failed to change his misery this year while he was retiring from Hong Kong in the first round, loser 21-16, 11-21, 15-21 against Thailand's Khosit Phetpradab.
Praneeth, who struggled to pbad the second round in the last three tournaments, sifted through his physical condition during which he did not last in the match and the exchanges with the clash. Three parties.
Praneeth started the game at the forefront. take the first game fairly comfortably. However, the next two games showed exactly how Praneeth was fighting with a three-game match.
Phetpradab was in good shape recently and has some nice shots in the sleeves. Although Praneeth is a technically talented player, Phetpradab could survive longer than the Indian on Wednesday.
In women's doubles, Ashwini-Sikki fought hard, but the gap between the two Indians and Japanese Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi.
Hong Kong Open: Ashwini-Sikki won the first match but lost the next two to lose the match. (@India_AllSports Photo)
Despite the surprising defeat of the first game, the second Japanese pair seeded outperformed Ashwini-Sikki 18-21, 21-10, 21-8 in 52 minutes.
Ashwini-Sikki played very well. Matsutomo and Takahashi stayed close to them before winning 21-18, at the first meeting.
However, in the next two games, they only managed 18 points and the Japanese ran away with the match. second turn.
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