Indian shuttler H S Prannoy has progressed to the men's singles quarterfinals of the French Open Badminton Super Series in Paris. He defeated Denmark's Hans-Kristian Vittinghus in straight games 21-11 21-12 to set up a clash with 2016 Australian Open finalist Jeon Hyeok-jin of Korea. In another men's singles pre quarterfinal match, B Sai Praneeth bowed out after losing 13-21 17 -21 to Japan's Kenta Nishimoto late yesterday.Young Indian doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, meanwhile, notched up a stunning win over World No 6 Danish combo of Mads Conrad-Petersen and Mads Pieler Kolding to reach their second quarterfinal of the season. The World No 32 Indian pair, shocked the 2016 European champions Conrad-Petersen and Kolding 22-20 12- 21 21-19 in a match that lasted an hour. The Indian pair will square off against another Danish pair of Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen, who are the 2012 London Games silver medallists. In the quarterfinals, newly-crowned Denmark Open champion Kidambi Srikanth will face fourth seeded Chinese Shi Yuqi, who had reached the finals at All England Championship in March this year. Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu will meet World No. 10 Chinese Chen Yufei, who had beaten the Indian in the opening round at Odense last week.
News On AIR | October 27, 2017 12:10 PM
French Open Badminton: H S Prannoy progresses to men's singles quarterfinals