The
reigning
world
champion
Sindhu
defeated
Germany’s
Yvonne
Li
21-12,
21-18
in
a
match
that
last
37
minutes
on
court
3
to
reach
the
last
8
of
the
tournament.

Starting
the
encounter
on
a
high,
Sindhu
comfortably
took
the
opening
game
against
Li
21-12
after
winning
seven
straight
points
at
a
particular
stage
in
the
game.

Riding
on
the
confidence,
the
Indian
shuttler
lead
7-4
at
the
start
of
the
second
and
took
full
control
over
the
match
abd
went
in
with
a
lead
at
the
break.

The
second
half
of
the
second
game
saw
Li
get
close
to
Sindhu
but
the
Indian
shuttler
got
over
the
line
against
someone
she
played
for
the
first
time
with
a
score
of
21-18.
Sindhu
will
next
take
on
South
Korea’s
Sim
Yujin
in
the
quarterfinals
on
Friday
(November
26).

Later,
India’s
top
doubles
pair
of
Satwiksairaj
Rankireddy
and
Chirag
Shetty
survived
a
scare
to
overcome
unseeded
South
Korean
pair
Kang
Minhyuk
and
Seo
Seungjae
21-15,
19-21,
23-21
to
reach
the
last
8
stage
in
men’s
doubles.

The
Indian
pair
will
next
face
Malaysian
pairing
of
Goh
Sze
Fei
and
Nur
Izzuddin,
who
knocked
out
third
seeded
Chinese
Taipei
pair
in
their
second
round
match,
in
the
quarterfinals.

On
Wednesday
(November
24),
Sindhu
had
defeated
Japan’s
Aya
Ohori
17-21,
21-17,
21-17
in
the
match
that
lasted
for
70
minutes
on
Court
1.

Sindhu
went
down
in
the
first
game,
but
she
was
able
to
rise
to
the
occasion
in
the
next
two
games,
and
as
a
result,
she
ended
up
winning
the
contest.

Later
on
Thursday
(November
25),
in
men’s
singles
competition,
Sai
Praneeth
will
be
in
action
against
French
badminton
player
Christo
Popov,
while
Kidambi
Srikanth
will
take
on
second
seeded
Viktor
Axelsen
of
Denmark.

Earlier,
five
of
the
country’s
doubles
pairs
including
Ashwini
Ponnappa
and
Sikki
Reddy
crashed
out
in
the
opening
rounds
of
their
respective
events,
while
Lakshya
Sen
and
HS
Prannoy
also
suffered
first
round
exits.

(With
Agency
inputs)