Badminton News: Indian men’s doubles duo Krishna Prasad Garaga and Vishnuvardhan Goud Panjala entered the second round with a back-to-back victory in two matches, but former Commonwealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap was knocked out of the Canada Open badminton tournament World Tour Super 500.
World No. 37 pair Krishna and Vishnuvardhan, who finished runners-up at the 2021 Orleans Masters and 2022 Syed Modi International, recorded an easy 21-14, 21-16 win over Chinese Taipei’s Chen Zhi Ray and Lu Chen in final. Top 32 on Wednesday (5/7) evening local time.
The young Indian pair will now face Indonesian second seeds, Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan who qualified for the round of 16 by defeating United States representatives, Chen Zi Yi / Presley Smith in two consecutive matches on the score of 21-14, 21-13 in a single game in 24 minutes..
Former world No. 6 Parupalli Kashyap, however, lost steam after winning his first men’s singles qualifying match.
The 36-year-old Indian senior, who reached the quarter-finals of the 2012 London Olympics, beat Germany’s Kai Schaefer 21-14 22-20 in the first round but suffered a 17-21 20-22 defeat against the Chinese Lei Lan Xi. withdraw from Super 50 0 tournaments.
Two-time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu, Commonwealth Games gold medalist Lakshya Sen, Tokyo Olympic B Sai Praneeth and Ruthvika Shivani Gadde will play at a later date.
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