Satwiksairaj-Ashwini enter Dutch Open quarter-finals

ALMERE: India's Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa beat

Kristoffer Knudsen

and

Isabella Nielsen

of Denmark in straight games to sail into the mixed doubles quarter-finals of the Yonex

Dutch Open

on Thursday.

The Indian pair took just 32 minutes to get the better of Knudsen and Nielsen 21-12 21-18 in a second round clash.

Satwiksairaj and Ashwini will now play Ireland's Scott Evans and Amanda Hogstrom of Sweden in the last eight round.

The Irish-Swede combination defeated German pair of Jones Ralfy Jansen and

Eva Janssens

21-11 17-21 21-18 in another second round match.