Indian shuttlers PV Sindhu and Sameer Verma reached the quarter-finals of the Toyota Thailand Open after registering straight-game wins while HS Prannoy bowed out of Super 1000 tournament in Bangkok on Tuesday.
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy also advanced in both mixed and men’s doubles with Ashwini Ponnappa and Chirag Shetty respectively.
Olympic silver medallist Sindhu expectedly outclassed Malaysia’s world no. 92 Kisona Selvaduray 21-10, 21-12 in a lopsided second-round contest that lasted just 35 minutes.
Up next for her will be a challenging encounter against Thailand’s fourth-seeded Ratchanok Inthanon next.
“The first game was pretty easy and in the second, I had to play with the wind and really control my strokes. I made some simple errors in the second game and they were ones I should not have made at all. There was too much wind in the second game and I was being careful,” Sindhu said.
“I was remembering last week’s tournament and each point was really…