Malaysia Open 2023: HS Prannoy retains India’s singles marketing campaign alive, reaches quarter-finals

Malaysia Open 2023: World No. 8 HS Prannoy continued his golden run on the tour, reaching the quarter-finals of the season’s first Super 1000 match. Prannoy is the one Indian left within the singles marketing campaign.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Jan 12, 2023 14:02 IST

HS Prannoy reached the quarter-finals of Malaysia Open 2023 (PTI Photo)

By India Today Web Desk: India’s HS Prannoy continued his spectacular run from 2022 as he reached the quarter-final of the season-opening Malaysia Open Super 1000 match in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, January 12. Prannoy defeated Indonesia’s Chico Aura Dwi Wadoyo in three video games within the second spherical of the celebrated match.

HS Prannoy wanted an hour and 4 minutes to defeat the World No. 19 21-9, 15-21, 21-16 and guide a spot within the quarter-final. Prannoy will face the winner of the second-round match between Malaysia’s Ng Tze Yong and Kodai Naraoka of Japan.

Prannoy was in fantastic type in 2022, turning into the one Indian to achieve the BWF World Tour Finals. The World No. 8 opened his marketing campaign in 2023, defeating compatriot and seventh seed Lakshya Sen in a hard-fought first-round match. Prannoy wanted greater than an hour as the 2 Indian shuttlers went toe-to-toe earlier than the 30-year-old 24-22, 12-21, 21-18.

Prannoy is the one Indian shuttler within the race in males’s singles as Kidambi Srikanth and PV Sindhu had been knocked out within the first-round. Sindhu, who returned to motion for the primary time since Commonwealth Games, misplaced a hard-fought three-game battle towards Carolina Marin.

Earlier within the day, Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand crashed out of the Super 1000 match after dropping to Bulgaria’s Gabriela Stoeva and Stefani Stoeva within the ladies’s doubles pre-quarterfinals.

The Indian pair, ranked sixteenth on the planet, suffered a 13-21, 21-15, 17-21 defeat by the hands of the Stoeva sisters in an hour and 9 minutes match on the Axiata Arena.

Later within the day, India’s Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will battle for a berth within the males’s doubles quarter-finals. They tackle Malaysia’s Shohibul Fikri and Bagas Maulana.

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Jan 12, 2023