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Birmingham (England): P.V. Sindhu and H.S. Prannoy advanced to the second round of the All England Open Badminton Championships which began at the Barclaycard Arena here on Wednesday.<\/p>\nBirmingham (England): P.V. Sindhu and H.S. Prannoy advanced to the second round of the All England Open Badminton Championships which began at the Barclaycard Arena here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Sixth seed Sindhu eased past Danish Mette Poulsen with a 21-10, 21-11 victory in 29 minutes. In the second round, the Indian will meet Indonesian Dinar Dyah Ayustine, who moved past Danish qualifier Natalia Koch Rohde 21-19, 22-20.<\/p>\n
Prannoy defeated China’s Qiao Bin 17-21, 22-20, 21-19 in an excruciating men’s singles match that lasted an hour and 22 minutes.<\/p>\n
India, however, fared badly in the doubles competitions. In the men’s doubles category, Manu Attri and B. Sumeeth Reddy suffered a first-round exit at the hands of qualifiers Peter Briggs and Tom Wolfenden, who won 21-19, 10-21, 21-18 in 47 minutes.<\/p>\n
There was also a huge upset in this category, with Danish second seeds Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen being stunned by Lu Kai and Zheng Siwei of China.<\/p>\n
The women’s doubles pair of Jakkampudi Meghana and Poorvisha S. Ram lost to Chinese Taipei’s Hsu Ya Ching and Wu Ti Jung 19-21, 12-21 in 31 minutes.<\/p>\n
Eighth seed Saina Nehwal will meet World No.11 and defending champion Nozomi Okuhara of Japan in the first round later in the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Birmingham (England): P.V. Sindhu and H.S. Prannoy advanced to the second round of the All England Open Badminton Championships which began at the Barclaycard Arena here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Sixth seed Sindhu eased past Danish Mette Poulsen with a 21-10, 21-11 victory in 29 minutes. In the second round, the Indian will meet Indonesian Dinar Dyah Ayustine, who moved past Danish qualifier Natalia Koch Rohde 21-19, 22-20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[21708,8612,466,1811,925],"class_list":["post-33846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-badminton-badminton","tag-all-england-open-badminton-championships","tag-h-s-prannoy","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-p-v-sindhu","tag-saina-nehwal"],"yoast_head":"\n