While Prannoy, seeded eighth, had to battle it out for an hour and two minutes to prevail over Indonesian Chico Aura Dwi Wardoyo 16-21, 21-5, 18-21 in a round of 16 match, Sindhu defeated China’s Han Yue in straight games.
Srikanth was shown the door by fourth-seeded Japanese Kodai Naraoka 14-21, 22-20, 9-21. Prannoy will next play Kanta Tsuneyama of Japan. Sindhu was at her lethal best as she took just 33 minutes to beat Yue 21-12 21-15 in a round of 16 match.
Eighth seed Sindhu will next play second seed An Se Young of Korea. In mixed doubles, Rohan Kapoor and N Sikki Reddy entered the quarterfinals after the fourth-seeded Korean pair of Seo Seung Jae Chae Yu Jung handed the Indians a walkover.
The Indian duo will next meet the Indonesian pair of Dejan Ferdinansyah Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja. However, it was curtains for B Sumeeth Reddy and Ashwini Ponnappa from the mixed doubles as they lost 15-21, 17-21.
Sixth-seeded Indian pair of Sankireddy and Chirag Shetty also progressed to the quarterfinals of the men’s doubles event with a convincing 21-13, 21-11 win over Jin Yong and Na Sung Seung. The Indian combination will take on third-seeded Indonesian pair of Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan.
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