In Badminton, HS Prannoy and Sourabh Verma today stormed into the quarterfinals of the New Zealand Open in Auckland. In the pre-quarterfinals, fourth seed Prannoy defeated 10th placed Nan Wei of Hong Kong, 21-18, 21-19, while seventh Sourabh edged past fellow Indian Parupalli Kashyap, 21-18, 13-21, 21-16. Another Indian shuttler Siril Verma will play his pre-quarterfinal match later today.The quarterfinal matches will be played tomorrow.PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth are not playing in the tournament.