Indian shuttlers Parupalli Kashyap, Sameer Verma and HS Prannoy qualified for the quarterfinals of the men’s singles competition at $ 120,000 US Open Grand Prix Gold. Kashyap defeated Hungary’s Gergely Krausz who gave up the match midway in the second game with the scoreline reading 21-18 17-6 in favour of the Indian.
The Commonwealth Games gold medalist went on to beat Sri Lanka’s Niluka Karunaratne, seeded 16th, 21-19 21-10 in the pre-quarterfinals match on the same day. In the quarterfinals, Kashyap will face compatriot and fifth seed Sameer Verma, who notched up victories over Croatia’s Zvonimir Durkinjak and Brazil’s Ygor Coelho.
Sameer Verma, who is making a comeback after recovering from a shoulder injury, had to fight hard to beat Zvonimir 21-19 25-27 21-15 in the first match. He then saw off ninth seed Ygor 18-21 21-14 21-18 to book his quarter-final berth.
Second seed HS Prannoy defeated Ireland’s Joshua Magee 21-13 21-17 without conceding a game before beating Netherlands’ Mark Caljouw 21-8 14-21 21-16 in 48 minutes.
Prannoy will face eighth seed Kanta Tsuneyama of Japan next.
Meanwhile, in the men’s doubles, third seeds Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy defeated Indonesian combo of Hendra Tandjaya and Androw Yunanto 21-16 21-9 to set up a clash with seventh seeded Japanese Hiroki Okamura and Masayuki Onodera.
Women’s doubles pair of Meghana Jakkampudi and Poorvisha S Ram also bowed out with an 18-21 9-21 loss to seventh seeds Mayu Matsumoto and Wakana Nagahara of Japan.
Mixed doubles pair of Manu and Maneesha also suffered a 16-21 12-21 loss to fourth seeded Malaysian combo of Goh Soon Huat and Shevon Jemie Lai.
(With inputs from agency)
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