Lucknow: Many matches were played on the second day of the Syed Modi India International HSBC World Tour Super 300 Badminton Championship-2024. In this, all the players gave a tough competition to each other. PV Sindhu and Lakshya Sen started their campaign with a great win in the Championship 2024 and secured a place in the pre-quarterfinals of women’s and men’s singles respectively.
Second Malvika Bansod, fifth Anupama Upadhyay reached the last 16 of women’s singles and third seed Kiran George and eighth seed Ayush Shetty reached the last 16 of men’s singles. Shruti Mishra and Priya Konjengbam also secured a place in the women’s doubles pre-quarterfinals along with the Indian pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto.
Olympic silver medallist and top seed PV Sindhu won 21-17, 21-15 against rising Indian star Anmol Kharab in the women’s singles event held at Yonex Sunrise Babu Banarasi Das Badminton Academy with a prize money of USD 2,10,000.
Asia Team Championship gold medallist Anmol took the lead by playing some excellent shots but Sindhu, who entered the championship after two years, made full use of her experience and won the first game after some struggle. In the second game, Sindhu fell behind initially but she made a comeback with strong court coverage. Sindhu will now face the challenge of India’s Ira Sharma.
Top seed Lakshya Sen easily defeated Malaysian qualifier Sholeh Aidil in straight games 21-12, 21-12 in men’s singles. Second seed Malvika Bansod, who was the runner-up in the 2022 championship, defeated Victoria of Poland 21-16, 21-7.
In the women’s doubles, Shruti Mishra of Uttar Pradesh, who teamed up with Priya Konjengbam, defeated India’s Vaishnavi Khedekar and Alisha Khan 21-14, 21-12 to enter the pre-quarterfinals. UP’s Mansi Singh, who reached the main draw from the qualifiers, was defeated by Thailand’s Chauth Pornpicha Choikewong 13-21, 21-14, 21-17.
In the first round of women’s doubles, the top seeded pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto of India, runners-up in the last edition, defeated India’s Ishu Malik and Tanu Malik 21-12, 21-10.
In other matches of the first round of women’s singles, India’s Unnati Hooda defeated Thailand’s Thamanowan N 21-12, 21-16, USA’s Ishika Jaiswal defeated Indian qualifier Tanvi Sharma 25-23, 21-8, India’s Ira Sharma defeated Deepshikha Singh 21-13, 21-19, Devika Sihag defeated Navya Kanderi 19-21, 21-18, 21-11, China’s qualifier Han Qin Zhi defeated Chinese Taipei’s Chen Su Yu 21-16, 21-16, fifth seed India’s Anupama Upadhyay defeated Azerbaijan’s Keisha Fatima 19-21, 22-20, 21-15 and India’s Tasnim Mir defeated Chinese Taipei’s Yi Yin H 21-18, 21-15. Entered the last 16.
In the first round of men’s singles, India’s eighth seed Ayush Shetty defeated India’s Raghu Mariswamy 21-18, 15-21, 21-16, India’s third seed Kiran George defeated India’s Alap Mishra 21-12, 23-21, Malaysia’s Justin Hoh defeated India’s Mithun Manjunath 21-18, 17-21, 21-17 and Ireland’s sixth seed Nhat Nguyen defeated India’s Chirag Sen 21-14, 21-15 to enter the last 16.
In the first round of women’s doubles, India’s Kavipriya Selvam and Simran Singhi defeated India’s Aparna Balan and Gauri Krishna TR 21-11, 21-14, fourth seeded India’s Rituparna Panda and Swetaparna Panda defeated India’s Rituparna Das and Pranika Holkar 21-10, 21-16 to enter the last 16.
In the first round of men’s doubles, India’s Ishan Bhatnagar and Shankar Prasad Udayakumar defeated Thailand’s Neodong and Songopan Se Ma 21-17, 22-24, 21-18 and India’s Prakash Raj and Gaus Sheikh defeated India’s Ayush Makhija and Sujoy Tamboli 25-23, 21-16. In mixed doubles, India’s second pair of Satish Kumar Karunakaran and Adya V. defeated India’s Ganesh Vithal G and Shivani Santosh Singh 21-18, 19-21, 21-15.
