Hilo Open Badminton: Satwik-Chirag pair in next round, Saina Nehwal out

Saarbrücken (Germany). India’s pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty entered the men’s doubles second round of the Hilo Open Super 300 badminton tournament after defeating Li Yang and Lu Chen of Chinese Taipei here on Wednesday. The Indian pair won the match 19-21, 21-19 21-16. The world number eight pair will next face England’s Rory Eastron and Zach Russ.

Meanwhile, men’s singles pair of HS Prannoy and men’s doubles pair of MR Arjun-Dhruv Kapila gave walkovers to their opponents in the first round matches. London Olympics bronze medalist Saina Nehwal crashed out in women’s singles after going down 15-21, 8-21 to fourth seed Busanan Ongbamrungphan of Thailand.

In another women’s singles match, Malvika Bansod defeated Clara Azurmendi of Spain 20-22, 21-12, 21-6 to enter the second round. Her next match will be against seventh seed Kirsty Gilmour of Scotland. Let us tell you that the pair of Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty has recently won the title of French Open. There are high expectations from him in this tournament as well.

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