Prannoy wins, however Indian shuttlers lose in doubles

India’s HS Prannoy fought again from a recreation right down to beat Hong Kong’s NG Ka Long Angus in his males’s singles match however the nation’s doubles pairs suffered heavy defeats to make first spherical exits from the BWF World Badminton Championship right here on Monday.
Having misplaced the primary recreation, Prannoy got here again remarkably to win 13-21 21-18 21-19 in a contest that stretched to at least one hour and 11 minutes.
However, the Indian duo of Venkat Gaurav Prasad and Juhi Dewangan suffered a crushing 8-21 4-21 loss to Denmark’s Mathias Thyrri and Mai Surrow, the blended doubles first spherical match lasting barely 21 minutes in all.
Then, in a males’s doubles match, India’s Arun George and Sanyam Shukla misplaced to the Chinese duo of Ou Xuan Yi and Zhang Nan 15-21 14-21. The winners took simply 32 minutes to seal the match of their favour and progress to the subsequent spherical of the celebrated match.

Utkarsh Arora and Karishma Wadkar misplaced their blended doubles match to Germany’s Patrick Scheiel and Franziska Volkmann 20-22 16-21.
MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila are attributable to tackle Danish pair Daniel Lundgaard and Mathias Thyrri.
On Sunday, Kidambi Srikanth defeated Pablo Abian of Spain to start his marketing campaign on a profitable observe. The twelfth seeded Indian beat the native challenger 21-12 21-16 in 36 minutes within the first spherical of the lads’s singles occasion.
The Indian males’s doubles pair of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy, nevertheless, misplaced 16-21 15-21 to Joel Elpe and Rasmus Kjaer of Denmark within the opening spherical.
The girls’s doubles pair of Pooja Dandu and Sanjana Santosh had retired after they misplaced the primary recreation 12-21 to the Dutch duo of Alyssa Tirtosentono and Imke van der Aar.