Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu survived early jitters to register a 21-17, 21-15 victory over rising star Anmol Kharb in her women’s singles round of 32 match at the Syed Modi International 2024 badminton in Lucknow on Wednesday.
Paris 2024 Olympians Lakshya Sen and Tanisha Crasto-Ashwini Ponnappa along with women’s singles players Malvika Bansod and Unnati Hooda also advanced to the next round.
PV Sindhu, 18th in the badminton rankings, trailed 17-year-old Anmol Kharb by five points in the first game at 13-8. However, top-seeded Sindhu used her experience to win the next 13 of the 17 points and pocket the first game.
Sindhu, who won the Syed Modi tournament two years ago, kept firm control of the contest after the change of ends to move into the round of 16, where she will take on compatriot Ira Sharma.
Paris 2024 Olympics semi-finalist Lakshya Sen, top-seeded in the men’s singles, defeated Malaysia’s unseeded Sholeh Aidil 21-12, 21-12 and will take on Daniil Dubovenko of Israel for a place in the quarter-finals.
Second-seeded women’s singles player Malvika Bansod also advanced to the next round with a convincing 21-16, 21-7 win over Poland’s Wiktoria Dabczynska.
The 17-year-old Unnati Hooda, who became the youngest Indian badminton player to win a title on the BWF World Tour in 2022, defeated Thailand’s Thamonwan Nithittikrai 21-12, 21-16.
Top-seeded women’s doubles pair of Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa defeated unseeded pair of Ishu Malik-Tanu Malik 21-12, 21-10. Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Gayatri Gopichand-Treesa Jolly will be in action later in the day in the women’s doubles.
Syed Modi International 2024 badminton: Day 2 India results
Men’s singles
- Mithun Manjunath lost to Justin Hoh (MAS) 18-21, 21-17, 17-21
- Nhat Nguyen (IRL) bt Chirag Sen 21-14, 21-15
- Lakshya Sen bt Sholeh Aidil (MAS) 21-12, 21-12
- Ayush SHETTY bt Raghu Mariswamy 21-18, 15-21, 21-16
- Kiran George bt Alap Mishra 12-21, 23-21
- Shogo Ogawa (JPN) bt Tharun Mannepalli 21-14, 19-21, 21-14
- Meiraba Luwang Maisnam bt Saran Jamsri 14-21, 21-19, 21-10
Women’s singles
- Unnati Hooda bt Thamonwan Nithittikrai (THA) – 21-12, 21-16
- Keisha Fatimah Azzahra lost to Anupama Upadhyaya 21-19, 20-22, 15-21
- Isharani Baruah lost to Wu Luo Yu (CHN) 16-21, 12-21
- Devika Sihag bt Navya Kanderi 19-21, 21-18, 21-11
- PV Sindhu bt Anmol Kharb 21-17, 21-15
- Lalinrat Chaiwan (THA) bt Aakarshi Kashyap 21-8, 21-12
- Ira Sharma bt Deepshikha Singh 21-13, 21-19
- Malvika Bansod beat Victoria Dabczynska (POL) 21-16, 21-7
- Shriyanshi Valishetty bt Imad Farooqui Samiya (retired) 21-11, 8-3
- Mansi Singh 13-21, 21-14, 21-17
- Ishika Jaiswal bt Tanvi Sharma 25-23, 21-8
- Tasnim Mir bt Yi En Hsieh (TPE) 21-18, 21-15
Men’s doubles
- Uthsava Palit-Harshitaa Rout lost to Bao Li Jing-LI Qian (CHN) 21-6, 21-10
- Navdha Manglam-Divya R Balasubramanian lost to Cheng Yu-Pei-Sun Yu Hsing (TPE) – 12-21, 7-21
- 9. Followed by
- Dhanyaa Nandakumar-Arul Bala Radhakrishnan bt Prerana Alvekar-Mrunmayee Deshpande 21-18, 21-13
- Kavipriya Selvam-Simran Singhi bt Aparna Balan-Gowri Krishna TR – 21-11, 21-14
- Priya Konjengbam-Shruti Mishra bt Vaishnavi Khadkekar-Alisha Khan 21-14, 21-12
- Rutaparna Panda-Swetaparna Panda bt Rituparna Das-Pranika Holkar 21-10, 21-16
- Lui Lok Lok-Tsang Shark Yan and Trisha Hegde-Ritika Thaker
Women’s doubles
- Vishnu Sreekumar-Ashith Surya lost to Bryan Jeremy Goonting-M Fazriq Mohamad Razif (MAS) 21-15, 21-14
- Cui He Chen-Peng Jian Qin bt Nithin HV-Venkata Harsha Vardhan Rayudu Veeramreddy 21-6, 21-16
- Hunag Di-Liu Yang (CHN) bt Achutaditya Rao Doddavarapu-Siddharth Elango 21-7, 21-13
- Prakash Raj-Gouse Shaik bt Ayush Makhija-Sujey Tamboli 25-23, 21-16
- Hariharan Amsakarunan-Ruban Kumar Rethinasabapathi bt Sanjai Srivatsa Dhanraj-Sai Pavan Karri 21-10, 21-8
- Sun Wen Jun-Zhu Yi Jun bt Tori Aizawa-Daisuke Sano 21-16, 21-15
- Kittinupong Kedren-Dechapol Puavaranukroh (THA) bt Viplav Kuvale-Viraj Kuvale 21-13, 21-13
- Ishaan Bhatnagar- Sankar Prasad Udayakumar bt Neuaduang Mangkornloi-Songpon Sae-Ma (THA) 21-17, 22-24, 21-18
- Rory Easton-Alex Green (ENG) bt Shiven Sharma-Mohit Singh 21-6, 21-14
Mixed doubles
- Bing Kun Loo-Ho Lo Ee (MAS) bt Bhargav Ram Arigela-Vennala Kalagotla 21-15, 21-15
- Sathish Kumar Karunakaran-Aadya Variyath bt Ganesh Vittalji-Shivani Santosh Singh 21-8, 19-21, 21-15
- Dechapol Puavaranukroh-Supissara Paewsampran (THA) bt Hema Nagendra Babu Thandrangi-Kanika Kanwal 21-15, 21-9
- Pharanyu Kaosamaang-Tanadon Punpanich (THA) bt PS Ravikrishna-Akshan Shetty 21-14, 21-14
- Liao Pin Yi-Huang Ke Xin (CHN) bt Arvind V Suresh-Dhanyaa Nandakumar 21-16, 21-16
