September 10, 2015 5:16 PM

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Kashyap wins; Saina, Srikanth, Prannoy lose in Japan Open

Commonwealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap is the lone Indian left in the on-going Japan Open Super Series badminton tournament. In Tokyo today, unseeded Kashyap advanced to the third round of the Men's Singles when he prevailed over World No. 4 Srikanth 21-11, 21-19 in an all-Indian contest, which lasted 45 minutes. Kashyap will take on sixth seed Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei tomorrow.In other fixtures, World No.1 Saina Nehwal and World No.12 H S Prannoy failed to cross the second round. World Championship silver medallist Saina suffered a 13-21 16-21 loss to local star shuttler Minatsu Mitani in thewomen's singles, while Prannoy failed to get across Lee Dong Keun and went down 9-21 16-21 to the Korean.

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