Ace Indian shuttler HS Prannoy waltzed into the quarterfinal of the Taipei Open after recording a snug straight-game win over Indonesia’s Tommy Sugiarto in Taipei on Thursday. Prannoy, the nation’s top-ranked males’s singles participant, took 36 minutes to dispatch former world championship bronze medallist Sugiarto 21-9 21-17 within the BWF World Tour Tremendous 300 event. The world quantity 9 will play Hong Kong’s fifth seed Angus Ng Ka Lengthy within the final eight stage.
Prannoy, who claimed the Malaysia Masters Tremendous 300 title final month, has loved a great run just lately. Final week, he put up a powerful show on the Indonesia Open, a Tremendous 1000 event, making it to the semifinals, the place he misplaced to world No.1 and eventual winner Viktor Axelsen of Denmark.
Prannoy is the lone Indian remaining within the competitors.
Former Commonwealth Video games medallist Parupalli Kashyap went down 16-21 17-21 to native favorite Su Li Yang.
It was additionally the top of the highway for the combined doubles pair of Sikki Reddy and Rohan Kapoor as nicely.
The Indian duo was handed a 13-21 18-21 defeat by Taipei’s Chiu Hsiang Chieh and Lin Xiao Min.
Tanya Kamath additionally did not pose any actual menace as she went down 11-21 6-21 to World Championship and Olympic silver medallist Tai Tzu Ying.
The BWF World Tour is split into six ranges, specifically World Tour Finals, Tremendous 1000, Tremendous 750, Tremendous 500, and Tremendous 300 so as.
One different class of event, the BWF Tour Tremendous 100 stage, additionally provides rating factors. Every of those tournaments provides totally different rating factors and prize cash.