15 September,2017 10:21 AM IST | Seoul | PTI
PV Sindhu and Sameer Verma advanced to the quarter-finals with straight-game wins in their respective women's and men's singles preliminaries of the Korea Super Series here yesterday
Indian shuttler B Sai Praneeth
PV Sindhu and Sameer Verma advanced to the quarter-finals with straight-game wins in their respective women's and men's singles preliminaries of the Korea Super Series here yesterday.
However, it was curtains for Parupalli Kashyap and B Sai Praneeth - both of whom bowed out of the tournament after losing their second-round men's singles matches.
Sindhu saw off Thailand's Nitchaon Jindapol 22-20, 21-17 to set up a clash with Japan's Minatsu Mitani.
Syed Modi Grand Prix gold winner Sameer defeated Hong Kong's Wong Wing Ki Vincent 21-19, 21-13. He will need to raise his game by a few notches when he faces local hot favourite Son Wan Ho, who defeated Kashyap 21-16, 17-21, 21-16 to reach the last-eight stage. Praneeth fought hard before going down 13-21, 24-26 to seventh seeded Tzu Wei Wang of Chinese Taipei in a contest that lasted 40 minutes.
In men's doubles, the Indian pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty prevailed 23-21, 16-21, 21-8 over the Chinese Taipei's duo of Lee Jhe-Huei and Lee Yang.
