Lakshya, Ayush, Tharun and Rakshitha enter second spherical of Macau Open

Indian shuttlers Lakshya Sen, Ayush Shetty and Tharun Mannepalli progressed to the second spherical of the boys’s singles competitors on the Macau Open Super 300 badminton event after registering wonderful wins right here on Wednesday.

Lakshya, the Commonwealth Games champion, brushed apart Korea’s Jeon Hyeok Jin 21-8 21-14, whereas world No. 31 Ayush eased previous Chinese Taipei’s Huang Yu Kai 21-10 21-11. Tharun defeated fellow Indian Manraj Singh 21-19 21-13.

Lakshya will subsequent face Indonesia’s Chico Aura Dwi Wardoyo, Ayush will tackle Malaysia’s Justin Hoh, whereas Tharun has arrange a second-round conflict with prime seed Lee Cheuk Yiu of Hong Kong.

In girls’s singles, Rakshitha Ramraj emerged as the one Indian to make the minimize for the second spherical after beating Thailand’s Pornpicha Choeikeewong 18-21 21-17 22-20 in 63 minutes.

In combined doubles, fifth seeds Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto, ranked 18th on the planet, outclassed Thailand’s Ratchapol Makkasasithorn and Nattamon Laisuan 21-10 21-15 in a brisk 26-minute encounter.

In an all-Indian males’s doubles conflict, P Krishnamurthy Roy and S Pratheek Ok prevailed 21-18 21-19 over D Konthoujam and Amaan Mohammad to enter the second spherical.

However, India’s HS Prannoy made an early exit after shedding 21-18 15-21 15-21 to Indonesia’s Yohanes Saut Marcellyno within the males’s singles opening spherical.

It was additionally finish of the highway for Sathish Kumar Karunakaran, who went right down to Malaysia’s Justin Hoh 19-21 12-21 in a 37-minute pre-quarterfinal match.

Rithvik Sanjeevi Satish Kumar sank with no hint, shedding 16-21 8-21 to Chico in one other match.

In girls’s singles, Unnati Hooda — who had shocked two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu on the China Open final week — fought exhausting earlier than taking place 21-16 19-21 17-21 to Denmark’s Julie Dawall Jakobsen in 59 minutes.

Anupama Upadhyaya additionally discovered the going powerful in opposition to Japan’s Riko Gunji, shedding 16-21 10-21.

Sankar Subramanian and Aakarshi Kashyap suffered first-round defeats, shedding 18-21 14-21 to China’s Hu Zhe An and 14-21 16-21 to Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara respectively, in males’s and ladies’s singles.

Kiran George was no match for Hong Kong’s Ng Ka Long Angus, shedding 15-21 10-21 in 31 minutes.

Anmol Kharb put up a spirited efficiency earlier than taking place 21-23 11-21 to Thailand’s Busanan Ongbamrungphan.

Former junior world No. 1 Tasnim Mir was outclassed 6-21 14-21 by Tokyo Olympic champion Chen Yu Fei in simply 27 minutes.

In combined doubles, Thandrangini Hema Nagendra Babu and Priya Konjengbam misplaced 11-21 14-21 to Thailand’s Phuwanat Horbanluekit and Fungfa Korpthammakit.

Ayush Agarwal and Shruti Mishra additionally bowed out within the opening spherical, taking place 10-21 11-21 to Indonesia’s Rehan Naufal Kusharjanto and Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja.

India suffered one other setback in combined doubles, with the Thirty fourth-ranked pair of Rohan Kapoor and Ruthvika Shivani Gadde shedding to Chinese Taipei’s Wu Guan Xun and Lee Chia Hsin 20-22 17-21 in a 37-minute contest.