The Indian women's doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand progressed to the quarterfinals of the Swiss Open with a straight-game win over compatriots Priya Konjengbam and Shruti Mishra on Thursday. (More Badminton News)
The eighth seeded Commonwealth Games bro💎nze medal𝄹lists hardly broke any sweat as they brushed aside fellow Indians Priya and Shruti, ranked 75th in the world, 21-10 21-12 in 36 minutes.
Th🧸e eighth seeded Commonwealth Games bronze medallists hardly broke any sweat as theꦫy brushed aside fellow Indians Priya and Shruti, ranked 75th in the world, 21-10 21-12 in 36 minutes.
Later, world No. 20 Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa, who are 6,296 points ahead of Treesa and Gayatri in the Paris qual꧟ification race at 12th spot, lost 🃏17-21 16-21 to Japan's world No. 30 Rui Hirokami and Yuna Kato.
The race for Olympic qualification thus spiced up in women's doubles as only the highest-ranked Indian pair inside top 16 by April end ౠwill make the cut for Paris.
Double Olympic medallist PV Sind𒉰hu, in-form Lakshya Sen, Kidambi Srikanth, Kiran George and Priyanshu Rajawat will be in action in the singles ꧋event later in the day.
The biggest face-off will be between Sindhu and 17-year-old Tomoka Miyazaki, who had claimed the gold medal at the 2022 world junior championships, and is coming into the t⛦ournament🥀 after winning her maiden Super 300 crown at Orleans Masters in France last week.
Sen will take on Chia Hao Lee of Chinesജe Taipei, while Srikanth will face top seed Lee Zii Jia.
