Srikanth, Kashyap enter quarterfinals; Satwik-Chirag lose at Swiss Open

World Championships silver medallist Kidambi Srikanth staved off aspirited problem from France’s Christo Popov to progress to the boys’s singles quarterfinals of the Swiss Open Super 300 event on Thursday.

World no 12 Srikanth, who had missed India leg of the BWF tour in January after testing optimistic for COVID-19, eked out a combating 13-21 25-23 21-11 win over Popov, ranked sixtieth, in a second-round match that lasted an hour and 13 minutes.

The seventh seeded Indian will face second seeded Dane Anders Antonsen subsequent.

Former Commonwealth Games gold medallist Parupalli Kashyap too entered the quarterfinals after high seed and Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen gave a walkover.

Third seeds Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, nevertheless, misplaced 19-21 20-22 to Indonesian pairing of Pramudya Kusumawardana and Yeremia Erich Yoche Yacob Rambitan within the males’s doubles.

In the ladies’s singles, Ashmita Chaliha put up a troublesome battle earlier than happening 18-21 20-22 to eighth seeded Scot Kirsty Gilmour within the second spherical.

On Wednesday night time, Sindhu had entered the second spherical with a 21-14 21-12 win over Denmark’s Line Hojmark Kjaersfeldt right here.

Sindhu, additionally a former world champion, will face Neslihan Yigit of Turkey late within the day.

Also progressing was the ladies’s doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy, who bought the higher of native pair Aline Muller and Jenjira Stadelmann 21-15 21-16 in straight video games.