Kidambi Srikanth wins, Satwik-Ashwini pair registers beautiful victory in Swiss Open opening spherical

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Top Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth staved off a spirited problem from compatriot Sameer Verma to make a profitable begin to his marketing campaign on the Swiss Open Super 300 event right here on Wednesday.
The fourth-seeded Indian, who had claimed the title in 2015, took slightly over an hour to see off 2018 winner Sameer 18-21 21-18 21-11 in a hard-fought males’s singles opening spherical match.

World No.13 Srikanth, an Olympic hopeful, might be up in opposition to both France’s Thomas Rouxel or Canada’s Xiaodong Sheng within the subsequent spherical.
Last evening, Indian combined doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa notched up an upset 21-18 21-10 win over the world no. 8 and second-seeded Indonesian pair of Hafiz Faizal and Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja within the opening spherical.

Satwik and Ashwini, who reached the semifinals of the Toyota Thailand Open Super 1000 occasion in January, had earlier defeated the Indonesian mixture on the Yonex Thailand Open in an exhilarating three-game match in January.
The world no. 19 duo, who’ve been coaching below new international coach Mathias Boe for the final one month, will face one other Indonesian pair — Rinov Rivaldy and Pitha Haningtyas Mentari — subsequent.
Another Indian shuttler, Pranaav Jerry Chopra, who was returning to motion after a COVID-19 pandemic break, did not have a very good outing as he alongside along with his combined doubles accomplice N Sikki Reddy misplaced 18-21 15-21 to the third-seeded English pair of Marcus Ellis and Lauren Smith in 39 minutes.
Swiss Open is the primary occasion of the prolonged Olympic qualification interval which is able to finish on June 15.