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India had a good day in office with top shuttlers P V Sindhu and Sameer Verma progressing to the second round of the USD 150,000 Australian Open World Tour Super 300 tournament in Sydney on Wednesday.
Updated : Jun 05, 2019, 04:11 PM IST
India had a good day in office with top shuttlers P V Sindhu and Sameer Verma progressing to the second round of the USD 150,000 Australian Open World Tour Super 300 tournament in Sydney on Wednesday.
World No 5 Sindhu, a silver medallist at Rio Olympics and 2017 and 2018 World championship, defeated Indonesia's Choirunnisa 21-14 21-9 in a lop-sided contest in women's singles.
The Indian will meet experienced Thai Nitchaon Jindapol next.
Sixth seed Sameer exacted revenge against Malaysia's Lee Zii Jia 21-15 16-21 21-12 in a thrilling opening round men's singles match. The Indian had lost to Lee at the Sudirman Cup last month.
Sameer smashes his way into R2!@sameerv2210 fought with a warrior spirit in a thrilling one hour encounter against #LeeZiiJia of in his R1 clash at #AustraliaOpenSuper300 to
— BAI Media (@BAI_Media) June 5, 2019
win the battle of nerves at 21-15 16-21 21-12. Great spirit!
#IndiaontheRise #badminton pic.twitter.com/nGCjjL5Qek
The 25-year-old from Madhya Pradesh, who had reached the semifinals at World Tour Finals, will square off against Chinese Taipei's Wang Tzu Wei in the second round.
Among others, former Singapore Open champion B Sai Praneeth, who had reached the finals at Swiss Open this year, beat Korea's Lee Dong Keun 21-16 21-14, to set up a clash with second seed Indonesian Anthony Sinisuka Ginting next.
In men's doubles, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty defeated compatriots Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy 21-12 21-16 to enter the second round.
Chirag/Satwik wins All-clash!
— BAI Media (@BAI_Media) June 5, 2019
The young MD pair of @satwiksairaj/@Shettychirag04 puts up a display to get the better of the experienced duo of @AtriManu/@buss_reddy in R1 of the #AustralianOpenSuper300 in a confident 21-12 21-16 win.
Kudos #IndiaontheRise #badminton pic.twitter.com/ULlUEGEOce
The young duo will next fight it out against second-seeded Chinese pair of Li Junhui and Liu Yuchen.
However, Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy lost 14-21 13-21 to Korean combination of Baek Ha Na and Kim Hye Rin.