Twenty-one years after her father
Pullela Gopichand claimed the title at the All England Championships, his daughter
Gayatri
won her first match along with
Treesa Jolly
in Birmingham on Wednesday.
Gayatri-Treesa will join PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal and the men's doubles pair of
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty
in the second round of the BWF Super 1000 event. While Sindhu downed Wang Zhi Yi of China 21-18, 21-13, Saina defeated Beatriz Corrales of Spain 21-17, 21-19.
However, nine Indians including
Sai Praneeth
and HS Prannoy crashed out of the Super 1000 event.
Gayatri and Treesa ousted India Open champions Benyapa Aimsaard and Nuntakarn Aimsaard of Thailand 17-21, 22-20, 21-14. The youngsters saved two match points to take the second and dominated their higher ranked opponents in the decider. Ashwini Ponnappa and Sikki Reddy lost their first round encounter to unseeded
Rin Iwanaga
and Kie Nakanishi of Japan 9-21, 13-21.
Satwik-Chirag registered a 21-17, 21-19 win over Alexander Dunn and Adam Hall of Scotland.
Sai Praneeth lost to top seed
Viktor Axelsen
of Denmark 20-22, 19-21. Though Prannoy fought hard, he failed to get past 20-year-old Kunlavut Vitidsarn of Thailand 15-21, 22-24. The former world junior champion had defeated Lakshya Sen in the German Open final on Saturday.
Sameer Verma failed to put up a fight against Mark Caljouw of Netherlands and lost 18-21, 11-21.
Indian results (Rd I; Men): 1-Viktor Axelsen (Den) bt Sai Praneeth 22-20, 21-11; Mark Caljouw (Ned) bt Sameer Verma 21-18, 21-11; Kunlavut Vitidsarn (Tha) bt HS Prannoy 21-15, 24-22;
Men's doubles: 5-Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty bt Alexander Dunn/Adam Hall (Sco) 21-17, 21-19; 2-Mohd Ahsan/Hendra Setiawan (Ina) bt MR Arjun/Dhruv Kapila 15-21, 21-12, 21-18; Mark Lamsfuss/Marvin Seidel (Ger) bt Krishna Prasad Garaga/Vishnuvardhan Goud Panjala 21-16, 21-19.
Women's singles: 6-PV Sindhu bt Wang Zhi Yi (Chn) 21-18, 21-13; Saina Nehwal bt Beatriz Corrales 21-17, 21-19. Doubles: Treesa Jolly/Gayatri Gopichand bt Benyapa Aimsaard/Nuntakarn Aimsaard (Tha) 17-21, 22-20, 21-14; Rin Iwanaga/Kie Nakanishi (Jpn) bt Ashwini Ponnappa/Sikki Reddy 21-9, 21-13; Supissara Paewsampran/Puttita Supajirakul (Tha) bt Jakkampudi Meghana/Poorvisha Ram 21-5, 21-3; Rachel Honderich/Kristen Tsai (Can) bt Srivedya Gurzada (Ind)/Ishika Jaiswal (USA) 21-9, 21-4
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