Hooda defeated Aakarshi Kashyap by 15-21, 21-19, 21-18 in a hard-fought round of 32 match on Wednesday and could be facing former world champion Nozomi Okuhara of Japan on Thursday, as per Olympics.com.
Madurai police foiled a smuggling bid and seized 951 kgs of Contraband (ganja) along with the arrest of two persons during checking in Tamil Nadu's Madurai.
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], October 11 (ANI/PNN): G Square Housing, South India's largest and most experienced land aggregator and plot promoter has honored the real superheroes of India - Para sportspersons with the prestigious G Square Wings of Fire Awards for the year 2022.
Sai Praneeth after consistently beating some of the big names in the game since 2017, he topped it off by winning the Singapore Super Series crown in 2017 and a World Championship bronze medal in 2019.
At the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay (PDDU) Indoor Stadium, B Sai Praneeth of Telangana defeated Mithun Manjunath of Karnataka 21-11, 12-21, 21-16 in 63 minutes, and Aakarshi Kashyap of Chattisgarh defeated Malvika Bansod of Maharashtra 21-8, 22-20 in 45 minutes.
In the Men's semifinals, played at the PDDU Indoor Stadium here on Wednesday, Sai Praneeth downed M Raghu of Karnataka 21-12, 21-19 while Mithun was clearly the dominant player in his 21-9, 21-11 victory over Gujarat's Aryamann Tandon
In the second match of the championship, Sai Praneeth defeated the highly anticipated and in-form HS Prannoy of Kerala 18-21, 21-16, 22-20. After falling behind a game, Sai Praneeth defeated Kerala's HS Prannoy in the championship.
Playing on the badminton courts at Nguyen Du Cultural Sports Club in Ho Chi Minh City, India's B Sai Praneeth, 40th in the badminton world rankings, went down to world No. 225 Rithvik Sanjeevi Satish Kumar 21-17, 18-21, 13-21 in one hour and three minutes.