All the seeded players advanced to the men's singles pre-quarterfinals of the ITF Davangere Open Men's World Tennis Tour, raising expectations of an exciting contest ahead in the USD 15,000 event.
Sidharth Rawat of India made a confident start to his campaign in the ITF Davangere Men's World Tennis Tour which kicked off at the prestigious Davangere Tennis Association courts here on Tuesday. The fifth seed scored a facile 6-1, 6-4 win over Suraj Prabodh to enter the pre-quarterfinals
Unnati Hooda won her second BWF Super 100 World Tour title. She became the youngest Indian to win a BWF title last year at 14 years of age, beating 21-year-old Smit Toshniwal in the final. In that tournament also, she defeated Farooqui in the quarterfinals.
Mizoram beat Mamta Modern School, Vikaspuri, New Delhi, 3-2 in a tight contest and T.G English School, Bishnupur, Manipur got the better off Shri Sainik Awasiya Mahavidyalaya, Bhaktapur, Nepal 3-0, while Jharkhand comprehensively beat Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Maheshpur, Pakur, Jharkhand 5
Kerala beat former champions Bangladesh Krida Shiksha Protishthan (BKSP) 4-2 to qualify for the quarterfinals while Chandigarh comprehensively beat Ramakrishna Mission School, Aalo, West Siang, Arunachal Pradesh 4-1 to book their place in the knockout stages of the tournament.
PV Sindhu, ranked 13th in the world, won the match with a 21-11, 21-10 scoreline, her third victory over the world No. 22 Chinese Taipei's shuttler Wen Chi Hsu in as many matches. The two competitors clashed at the Asian Games round of 32, where the Indian shuttler again triumphed in straigh
Ayush Shetty continued his fine form and assured India a medal at the Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Junior Championships after he defeated Japan's Yudai Okimoto in the quarterfinals to storm into the semifinals
Antim scored five technical points in the first half and six in the second to win easily by 11-0 against the reigning Asian Championships silver medallist.
Indian shuttlers Sai Pratheek and Tanisha Crasto bowed out in the mixed doubles Round of 16 at the Hangzhou Asian Games while the duo of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand also lost in the women's doubles pre-quarterfinals on Wednesday