Australian Open Badminton / Sindhu-Srikanth now just a few steps away from the Australian Open title, did amazing work

Zoom News : Aug 03, 2023, 05:56 PM
Australian Open Badminton: Badminton players from all over the world are currently facing each other in the Australian Open Badminton tournament. Many star shuttlers of India are also playing in this tournament. There was a lot of good news for India from the Australian Open on Thursday. Star shuttlers PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth have reached the quarterfinals of this tournament.

Amazing of Sindhu-Srikanth

India's two-time Olympic medalist Sindhu, Srikanth and youngster Priyanshu Rajawat advanced to the quarterfinals of the Australian Open Badminton Championships, while defending national champion Mithun Manjunath crashed out in the second round. Sindhu, who won a silver medal at the Rio Olympic Games in 2016 and a bronze medal at Tokyo 2020, defeated compatriot Akarshi Kashyap 21-14, 21-10 in a 29-minute match.

Great win for Srikanth

Srikanth registered an equally easy victory over Chinese Taipei's Su Li Yang 21-10, 21-17 in his second round match on Court 3 of the Quay Center at the BWF World Tour Super 500 event. Rajawat defeated Chinese Taipei's Wang Tzu Wei in three hard-fought games, stopping his opponent's comeback in the second game to win 21-8, 13-21, 21-19 in 59 minutes.

Manjunath had to face defeat

Mithun Manjunath went down in three games 21-13, 12-21, 21-19 to experienced Lee Ji Jia of Malaysia in the second round. It was Sindhu's first encounter with Aakarshi and the more experienced player held the lead throughout the match and pressed for a comfortable win. In the tournament, fifth seed Sindhu will next face fourth seed Beiwen Zhang of Malaysia, who after a hard-fought 19-21, 21-10, 21-12 win in the second game against Huang Yu-hsun, reached the final. Reached stage eight.

Srikanth's fight with Priyanshu

Srikanth, who beat Japan's Kenta Nishimoto 21-18, 21-7 in the first round, will take on compatriot Priyanshu Rajawat for a place in the semi-finals. Rajawat won the first game easily 21-8, giving no chance to his opponent. The Chinese Taipei shuttler made a strong comeback in the next game to win it 21-13. After this, he made a strong comeback to win the match and made it to the quarterfinals.

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