Badminton News : Incredible day for Indian shuttlers at Thailand Open second leg

With back-to-back wins the Indian shuttlers are slowly and gradually coming back on track in the second leg of Thailand Open Super 1000 event. Star India shuttler PV Sindhu has outsmarted Malaysia’s Kisona Salvaduray 21-10, 21-12 in the most dynamic fashion she could. Sindhu was leading from the start of the match and made sure that she would not let her Malaysian opponent breathe even for a moment. Selvaduray had no answers to Sindhu’s returns and smashes throughout the match and as a result, the Indian made her way to the quarter-finals. Sameer Verma too continued his stellar run at the Toyota Thailand Open as he eased past Denmark's Rasmus Gemke in straight games to enter the quarterfinals of the men's singles event. However, there was disappointment for HS Prannoy who crashed out of the Super 1000 tournament after facing defeat at the hands of Malaysia's Liew Daren. Verma defeated Gemke 21-12, 21-9 in the second-round contest that lasted for almost 40 minutes. Verma led the match from the start and took the opening game in less than 20 minutes. Having beaten the eighth seed Lee Zii Jia of Malaysia in the opening round, the world number 31 took his game a notch higher as he won the second game 21-9 to march into the last eight. Verma will now face world three Anders Antonsen for a place in the semi-finals. Prannoy, on the other hand, suffered a 17-21, 18-21 defeat against Daren in his second-round match which stretched to 40 minutes. In mixed doubles event, the Indian duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa secured their berth into the quarter-finals after beating Germany's Mark Lamsfuss and Isabel Herttrich in their second round contest. Satwiksairaj and Ashwini defeated their German opponents 22-20, 14-21, 21-16.