File picture of PV Sindhu. AP
Vantaa: Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu sailed into the quarterfinals of the ladies’s singles occasion of the Arctic Open Tremendous 500 badminton event, but it surely was curtains for Kidambi Srikanth in males’s singles right here on Thursday.
Sindhu, seeded eighth, took simply 38 minutes to breeze previous Chinese language Taipei’s Wen Chi Hsu 21-11, 21-10.
Sindhu will subsequent play Thuy Linh Nguyen of Vietnam.
Nevertheless, the event ended for Srikanth and Kiran George in males’s singles.
Whereas Srikanth misplaced 15-21, 12-21 in opposition to seventh seed Kanta Tsuneyama of Japan, George was proven the door by fourth seed Lu Guang Zu of China 10-21 20-22.
Whereas the Indian problem resulted in males’s singles, Aakarshi Kashyap survived within the ladies’s singles occasion and can tackle fifth seeded Chinese language Wang Zhi Yi later within the day.
The lone Indian pair in ladies’s doubles, Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa additionally did not progress to the quarterfinals, dropping 19-21, 19-21 in opposition to the French duo of Margot Lambert and Anne Tran.