The Indian pair of B Sumeeth Reddy and Ashwini Ponnappa prevailed over the Denmark duo of Mads Vestergaard and Natasja P Anthonisen in a hard-fought match to advance to the second spherical of the blended doubles qualifiers of the Swiss Open badminton match right here on Tuesday.
The Indian pair received 18-21 21-16 21-17 in a qualification first-round match that lasted 59 minutes.
But it surely was curtains for an additional Indian — Sai Uttejitha Rao Chukka — as she conceded a walkover to Selin Hubsch of Germany within the girls’s singles qualification first spherical.
Many of the prime Indian gamers, together with P V Sindhu, Saina Nehwal and Okay Srikanth, are enjoying within the match.
World Championships bronze medallist Lakshya Sen has, nonetheless, withdrawn from the match after feeling exhausted following back-to-back closing appearances on the German Open and All England Championships.
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