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Yonex-Sunrise India Open 2025: Olympic champions Viktor Axelsen & Anupama Upadhyaya advances to second round.

Yonex-Sunrise India Open 2025: Olympic champions Viktor Axelsen and Anupama Upadhyaya advances to second round.

Text & Visuals : Rajeev Bhatt

Yonex-Sunrise India Open 2025:   Olympic champions Viktor Axelsen and Anupama Upadhyaya advances to second round.

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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