Indian shuttlers Kidambi Srikanth and H S Prannoy have sailed into the pre-quarterfinals of the Men's Singles at the World badminton Championships. In Jakarta today, both the players advanced with straight-game victories. While World No. 3 Srikanth defeated Chinese Taipei's Hsu Jen Hao 21-14, 21-15, World No. 12 Prannoy beat Uganda's Edwin Ekiring 21-14 21-19. However, Commonwealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap, seeded 10th, bowed out, losing to Tien Minh Nguyen of Vietnam in three games 21-17, 13-21, 18-21 in a tough encounter that lasted an hour and five minutes. In the women's doubles competition, 2011 World Championship bronze medallists, Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa, beat Chinese Taipei pair of Hsueh Pei Chen and Wu Ti Jung in straight games 21-10 21-18 to reach the pre-quarterfinals. Later this evening, World Number Two Saina Nehwal will take on unseeded Cheung Ngan Yi of Hong Kong in the second round of women's singles. Saina got a bye in the first round. Among other Indians in fray, women's doubles combo of Pradnya Gadre and Sikki N Reddy suffered a 17-21, 19-21 loss to 14th seeded Japanese combo of Shizuka Matsuo and Mami Naito. Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Akshay Dewalkar went down 16-21, 12-21 to Denmark's Mads Conrad-Petersen and Mads Pieler Kolding in the men's doubles event.
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Srikanth, Prannoy win; Kashyap lose in World C'ship