Day 1 Report: Indian shuttlers enjoyed a comfortable outing on the opening day of the Badminton World Championship on Monday with HS Prannoy and Sameer Verma sailing into the second round of the men’s singles while the doubles shuttlers also marched to the next round with ease. Prannoy, seeded 11th in the tournament, hardly broke into a sweat in cruising past unseeded New Zealander Abhinav Manota in straight games 21-12, 21-11 in a match that lasted 28 minutes. He will next take on Brazilian Ygor Coelho in the second round. Sameer also advanced comfortably to the next round after thrashing France’s Lucas Corvee 21-13, 21-10 in a 39-minute affair. [caption id=“attachment_4855001” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Saina Nehwal, Kidambi Srikanth, Tai Tzu Ying. Agencies[/caption] There was good news from the doubles shuttlers too as the men’s duo of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy and the mixed doubles pairs of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa, and Pranaav Jerry Chopra and N Sikki Reddy also advanced to the second round. While Manu and Sumeeth defeated Bulgarian pair Daniel Nikolov and Ivan Rusev 21-13, 21-18 in the 26-minute affair, the mixed doubles combo of Pranaav and Sikki comfortably went past the Czech Republic duo of Jakub Bitman and Alzbeta Basova 21-17, 21-15 in a 30-minute tie. Later in the day, Satwik and Ashwini floored Denmark’s Niclas Nohr and Sara Thygesen 21-9, 22-20 in a tie that lasted 36 minutes. In another mixed doubles tie, Saurabh Sharma and Anoushka Parikh beat Nigerians Enejoh Abah and Peace Orji 21-13, 21-12 comprehensively in 26 minutes while Rohan Kapoor and Kuhoo Garg defeated Canada’s Toby NG and Rachel Honderich 21-19, 21-6 in 28 minutes. However, it was curtains for the women’s doubles pair of Sanyogita Ghorpade and Prajakta Sawant, who lost their opening round clash 20-22, 14-21 to Turkey’s Bengisu Ercetin and Nazlican Inci in 34 minutes. Among others, top seed and defending champion Viktor Axelsen of Denmark enjoyed a comfortable 21-8, 21-7 win over Portugal’s Duarte Anjo, while third seed and reigning All England Champion Shi Yuqi of China beat Adam Mendrek of the Czech Republic 21-13, 21-11 to proceed to the second round. With inputs from IANS
Highlights, World Badminton Championships 2018: Saina, Srikanth, Ashwini, Satwiksairaj shine in mixed day for Indians
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End of Day 2 – Mixed feelings at the Indian camp
What a day this has been for Indian fans!!! While the results of the singles matches went according to script, the doubles matches became a rollercoaster of emotions.
On Day 1, 7 out of 8 Indians made it to the next round at the World Championships. However, on Day 2, this was not the case.
Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth sailed through to the next round with clinical performances. In the doubles division, Ashwini Ponnappa and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy hogged all the limelight
Ashwini and Satwik won their second-round mixed doubles encounter after being a game down. Both these players then went on to pair with their respective partners in women’s doubles (Sikki Reddy) and men’s doubles (Chirag Shetty) to emerge victorious in those matches too.
The other doubles pairs of Poorvisha/Meghana, Pranaav/Sikki, Kuhoo/Rohan, Kuhoo/Ningshi, Saurabh/Anoushka, Saurabh/Tarun, Arjun/Shlok failed to qualifyu for the next round. Most of these Indian doubles pairs showed a lot of spunk to fight till the end, but fell just short of the finish line.
As I said earlier, it was a mixed day for the Indian contingent and its fans.
However, tomorrow is a new day and we will see Indian shuttlers like PV Sindhu, Sameer Verma, Kidambi Srikanth, HS Prannoy, Sai Praneeth in singles action.
In the doubles division, formidable Indian pairs like Manu/Sumeeth, Ashwini/Sikki, Satwik/Chirag will be in action.
So will we with our coverage of all that’s happening at Nanjing, China at the BWF World Badminton Championships.
That’s it from us and thank you for joining Firstpost and looking forward to seeing you again for Day 3.
Ashwini Ponnappa-Sikki Reddy beat Chiang Kai Hsin/Hung Shih Han 19-21, 21-10, 21-17 in the women’s doubles encounter
An excellent day for @P9Ashwini as she wins her 2nd match of the day, this time in the women's doubles with @sikkireddy
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The Indian duo won 19-21, 21-10, 21-17 to move into the Round of 32#TOTALBWFWC2018
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A close first game there for the Anoushka/Saurabh pairing. They are putting up a good fight against much higher-ranked opponents.
Anoushka/Saurabh lost the opening game 18-21.
India’s Saina Nehwal puts up an impressive performance in her second-round victory over liye Demirbag. While Saina had a tight first game, she was clinical in the second game. She won the encounter 21-17, 21-8.
India's @NSaina sails through to the next round with a comfortable 21-17, 21-8 win over Turkey's Aliye Demirbag. #SainaNehwal will face Ratchanok Intanon in the 3rd round #TOTALBWFWC2018
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Saina leads 11-4!
11-4! Saina has been way better in this game and has been dictating the proceedings right from the start. She goes into the break with a seven-point lead#TOTALBWFWC2018
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Saina leads 11-10!
11-10! It is #SainaNehwal who goes into the mid-game break with a one-point advantage.#TOTALBWFWC2018
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