Ashmita, Malvika enter main draw of Thailand Open- The New Indian Express

By PTI

BANGKOK: Indian shuttlers Ashmita Chaliha and Malvika Bansod entered the ladies’s singles important draw on the Thailand Open Tremendous 500 match right here on Tuesday.

Whereas Ashmita beat USA’s Jennie Gai 21-16 21-18, Malvika defeated fellow Indian Anupama Upadhyaya 21-18 21-8 of their respective opening spherical matches.

Nevertheless, it was curtains for Thomas Cup winner Priyanshu Rajawat, Kiran George and Subhankar Dey as they didn’t cross the second qualification spherical.

Priyanshu, who had made it to the Thomas Cup squad after topping the choice trials, disposed off France’s Christo Popov 21-17 21-16 in his opening qualification spherical, solely to go down 10-21 24-22 12-21 to China’s Li Shi Feng.

Kiran, Odisha Open champion, beat Denmark’s Victor Svendsen 21-19 13-21 21-13 earlier than dropping 17-21 21-14 16-21 to Germany’s Kai Schaefer, whereas Subhankar defeated France’s Arnaud Merkle 21-16 17-21 21-17 however suffered a slim 14-21 21-18 7-21 loss to Denmark’s Mads Christophersen.

Kidambi Srikanth, B Sai Praneeth and different Indians will begin their marketing campaign on Wednesday.