Vidyadhar registered a convincing 21-7 21-17 win over Malaysian Mohd Hafiz Shaharuddin in the second round to enter the main draw of the $170,000 tournament.
NEW DELHI: Indians had a mixed day at the qualifiers for the five-star Singapore Open Badminton Championships with JBS Vidyadhar entering the men’s main draw and Jwala Gutta failing to make it to the women’s singles. Vidyadhar registered a convincing 21-7 21-17 win over Malaysian Mohd Hafiz Shaharuddin in the second round to enter the main draw of the $170,000 tournament.
He will meet Scott Evans of Ireland in the first round of the event on Wednesday.
World no 20 Chetan Anand, national champion Anup Sridhar, Arvind Bhat, Anand Pawar and P Kashyap have got a direct entry into the main draw and will also start
their campaign on Wednesday.
Gutta lost her second round qualification match, going down 23-21 21-12 against Jiayuan Chen of Singapore.
Saina Nehwal, who had failed to make it to the main draw of the six-star Indonesian Open last week, is the only Indian competitor in the women’s singles and will play her first match on Thursday against Yu-Chin Chien of Chinese Taipei.
She would be eager to prove her mettle in a star-studded line-up which includes the likes of Mia Audina Tjiptawan and Jie Yao of the Netherlands, Hongyan Pi of France, Kaori Mori of Japan and Tracey Hallam of England. India’s top men’s doubles combination, Rupesh Kumar and Thomas Sanave, take on Jonas Rasmussen and Peter Steffensen of Denmark, while the mixed doubles pairing of Jwala Gutta and D Diju face Indonesians Muhamad Rizal and Gresya Polii.
In the women’s doubles, Aditi Mutatkar and Sayali Gokhale will be up against Bulgarians Petya Nedeltcheva and Diana Dimova, while Saina teams up with Ruth Misra to take on Koreans Yu Mi Hwang and Min Jung Kim.
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