New Delhi, Jan 16: Lone Indian Mens Singles player, Kiran George kept his nerves under pressure to register straight game wins while the men’s doubles combination of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty came back from a game down to advance to the quarter-finals of the Yonex-Sunrise India Open 2025, a HSBC BWF World Tour Super 750 event, at the KD Jadhav Indoor Hall here on Thursday.

Kiran defeated Frenchman Alex Lanier 22-20, 21-13 in the men’s singles second round clash.Later in the day, 2022 champions Satwik and Chirag had to regroup after losing the first game to beat Japan’s Kenya Mitsuhashi/Hiroki Okamura 20-22, 21-14, 21-16.

Earlier, Kiran saved six game points against Lanier in the opening game of their second round clash. The 24-year-old, who got a last-minute entry into the competition from the reserves list, looked out of sorts as the Frenchman’s attacked precisely in the opening game.

Lanier raced to 20-14 lead in the opening game before Kiran staged an improbable comeback, winning eight straight points to pocket the game 22-20. At that stage, he simply kept the shuttle in play long enough for his opponent to make a mistake and the errors began coming think and fast for the Frenchman as the Indian started closing in.

“At 14-20, I was just taking at one point at a time, not thinking about the lead, whether I’m trailing. I was just playing one point at a time. I think that helped me to secure the game,” said Kiran after the win.

It looked like Satwik and Chirag will also take a straight games route to the round of 8 when they opened up a 18-14 lead and had a game point at 20-19 but could not convert it and lost the opening game. But that blip did not prove costly as they quickly took control of the action in the second game and then maintained the advantage to win in one hour 11 minutes.

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New Delhi, Jan 16: Former champion PV Sindhu rekindled memories of her old aggressive self up and coming Kiran George kept his nerves under pressure to register straight game wins while the men’s doubles combination of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty came back from a game down to advance to the quarter-finals of the Yonex-Sunrise India Open 2025, a HSBC BWF World Tour Super 750 event, at the KD Jadhav Indoor Hall here on Thursday.

Sindhu, playing only her second tournament since the Paris Olympics, hammered Japan’s Manami Suizu 21-15, 21-13.While that match kept the badminton fans at the edge of their seats, Sindhu and Kiran gave them enough reasons to celebrate.

Having spent over six months on the side-lines, Sindhu had looked rusty in the opening match against Shuo Yun Sung of Chinese Taipei in the opening round. But the former world champion played aggressively against Suizu by going for winners from both sides of the court.

After the initial exchanges, Sindhu raced to a 13-6 lead in the opening game and though Suizu narrowed the gap to 14-13, the Indian star always looked in control and he again opened a big gap. The second game saw complete domination of Sindhu, who found cross court winners at will.

“After a break, what I liked about my game today was my movement and my attacks were working well. Moving forward, I need to be ready for anything because matches will get harder,” said Sindhu, who will now face Indonesian fourth seed Gregoria Mariska Tunjung, who defeated another Japanese Natsuki Nadaira 21-12, 24-22 in the other second round clash.

It was not a fruitful day for the other Indian contenders in the fray with women’s doubles combination of Ashwini Ponnappa/Tanisha Crasto, Rutuparna Panda/Swetaparna Panda and mixed doubles pairs of Dhruv Kapila/Tanisha and Ashith Surya/Amrutha Pramuthesh getting knocked out in the second round.

Dhruv and Tanisha played their hearts out against eighth seeds Hiroki Midorikawa and Natsu Saito of Japan but ended on the losing end of the 21-18, 21-17 score-line. Later Tanisha and Ashwini also had a mixed day in office as they lost 9-21, 21-23 against Japan’s Yuki Fukushima and Mayu Matsumoto.

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New Delhi, Jan 15: Anupama Upadhyaya won the battle between two rising women’s singles players while Malvika Bansod and Priyanshu Rajawat put their best foot forward by putting their much higher ranked opponents to the sword but were unfortunate to end on the wrong side of the score-line in the opening round of the Yonex-Sunrise India Open 2025 at the KD Jadhav Indoor Hall here on Wednesday.

Among the foreign stars, Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen fought back from a game down to beat Chi Yu Jen (Tpe) 16-21, 21-11, 21-13 in men’s singles opening round while An Se Young defeated Chiu Pin-Chian of Taipei 22-20, 21-15.

Former National champion Anupama engaged Rakshita in long rallies, not giving her many chances to use the big smash to win 21-17, 21-18 in 43 minutes to advance to the second round.

“This is my first time playing in India Open Super 750 level. Last year, I was just watching all of them play. Before this I had played in the Super 500 but the standard at this level is different. Last year, I played my first 750 in China and last week also played Malaysia Super 1000. These performances help me believe that I can be their equal. I have the speed and compatibility against the top players,” said Anupama.

Also advancing to the next round were seventh seeded women’s doubles combination of Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto, Rutuparna Panda and Swetaparna Panda and the mixed doubles combination of Ashith Surya and Amruta Pramuthesh.

Ashwini and Tanisha defeated compatriots Kavya Gupta and Radhika Sharma 21-11, 21-12 while the Panda sisters got the better of the young Thai combination of Phattarin Aiamvareesrisakul and Sarisa Janpeng 7-21, 21-19, 21-14. Ashith and Amruta then teamed up to beat K Tarun and Sri Krishna Priya Kudaravalli 21-14, 21-15 to advance to the mixed doubles second round.

Asian Games and world championships bronze medallist HS Prannoy’s comeback bid was also cut short by Su Li Yang as the 32-year-old Indian went down 16-21, 21-18, 21-12 in an hour and 13 minutes.

The day ended on a disappointing note for the hosts as 2022 champion Lakshya Sen went down 21-15, 21-10 against Chinese Taipei’s Lin Chun-Yi.

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New Delhi, January 14: Former champion PV Sindhu brushed off the rustiness of a long competition break to register a straight games win over Sung Shuo Yun of Chinese Taipei came through hard-fought encounters to reach the second round of Yonex-Sunrise India Open 2025 badminton tournament at the KD Jadhav Hall here on Tuesday.

Sindhu, playing her first tournament after getting married in December last year, struggled with her rhythm during the 51-minute clash against an opponent who plays both singles and doubles but upped the tempo when required to win 21-14, 22-20, in the opening round of the HSBC BWF World Tour Super 750 event.

But the star attraction of the day was obviously Sindhu, who has been making a comeback of sorts on the BWF circuit after a long break since the Paris Olympics. She raced through the opening game and looked in control before she dropped four game points from 20-10.

The momentum stayed with Sung in the second game as the Taipei shuttler raced to a 4-11 lead. Sindhu then raised the tempo to close in at 13-13. Sung managed to keep pace and even earned a game point before the Indian turned things around to win.

“After a long break, it’s always difficult to find the rhythm but I am happy to have won the match in straight games. My shuttle was going midcourt in the second game but I was always confident that I could pull things off,” said the world no. 16, who will now face Japan’s Manami Suizu in the second round.

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