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B Sai Praneeth did not cross the opening hurdle after dropping in three video games however India registered twin wins in girls’s and combined doubles competitors on the opening day of the BWF World Championships right here on Monday. Praneeth, a 2019 bronze medallist, put up a courageous effort earlier than taking place 15-21 21-15 15-21 to world quantity 4 Chou Tien Chen of Chinese language Taipei in little over an hour. It was one more forgettable outing in Tokyo for Praneeth, following his struggles ultimately 12 months’s Olympic Video games the place he participated and not using a correct coach or physio to ultimately bow out early.
Nevertheless, former Commonwealth Video games bronze medallists Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy progressed to the ladies’s doubles second spherical with a 21-7 21-9 win over Maldives’ Aminath Nabeeha Abdul Razzaq and Fathimath Nabaaha Abdul Razzaq.
Ashwini and Sikki will face the uphill job of taming prime seeds Chen Qing Chen and Jia Yi Fan of China within the second spherical.
In combined doubles, Tanisha Crasto and Ishaan Bhatnagar defeated German duo of Patrick Scheiel and Franziska Volkmann 21-13 21-13 in 29 minutes to additionally make a optimistic begin to their marketing campaign.
The Indian pair will meet 14th seeds Supak Jomkoh and Supissara Paewsampran of Thailand subsequent.
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Final version’s silver and bronze medallists Kidambi Srikanth and Lakshya Sen, and former world no. 8 HS Prannoy will likely be among the many Indian shuttlers competing later within the day.
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