Former country wide champion Anupama Upadhyaya turned into one of the few vibrant spots on an in any other case disappointing day two for indian shuttlers at the india Open 2025 on Wednesday.
India's guys's singles campaign suffered substantial setbacks as HS Prannoy, Lakshya Sen, and Priyanshu Rajawat had been knocked out after contrasting first-spherical defeats at the USD 950,000 exceptional 750 event.
despite the touted domestic gain, kiran George turned into the most effective indian survivor within the guys's singles. In women's singles, Anupama joined pv sindhu in the 2d spherical with a difficult-fought victory over her close friend and fellow Gopichand Academy trainee, Rakshitha Sree, securing a 21-17, 21-18 win. the nineteen-12 months-old from almora now faces former international junior champion and sixth seed Tomoka Miyazaki of japan in the next spherical.
Priyanshu Rajawat delivered a spirited overall performance before falling sixteen-21, 22-20, and 13-21 to international No. 7 Kodai Naraoka of japan in a gruelling match that lasted an hour and 22 mins. on the adjoining court, Su Li Yang of chinese language Taipei defeated HS Prannoy 21-sixteen, 18-21, 12-21. Lakshya Sen, fresh off his Syed Modi international awesome three hundred name last month, suffered a disappointing 15-21, 10-21 loss to Chun Yi Lin of chinese language Taipei in his opener.
In doubles motion, tanisha Crasto and ashwini Ponnappa, sparkling from their guwahati Masters name, defeated Kavya Gupta and radhika Sharma 21-eleven, 21-12 to improve to the second spherical. The Panda sisters, Rutuparna and Swetaparna, staged a extraordinary comeback to defeat Thailand's Phattharin Aiamvareesrisakul and Sarisa Janpeng 7-21, 21-19, 21-14.
In blended doubles, Ashith surya and Amruta Pramuthesh secured their spot in the next spherical by means of dispatching ok tarun and sri krishna Priya Kudaravalli 21-14, 21-15.
Aakarshi Kashyap lost to Thailand's Pornpawee Chochuwong 17-21, thirteen-21 within the beginning round. Malvika Bansod, regarded as India's 2d-satisfactory ladies's singles participant after Sindhu, confirmed promise but fell short towards world No. four Han Yue of China. regardless of main 14-eleven inside the first sport, Malvika's mistakes allowed Han to claw lower back and comfortable a 21-sixteen, 21-eleven victory.
world No. 1 and Olympic champion An Se young of korea started out her marketing campaign with a commanding 22-20, 21-15 win over chinese language Taipei's Chiu Pin Chian. in the meantime, double Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen overcame a slow begin to defeat Yu Jen Chi of chinese Taipei sixteen-21, 21-11, 21-13.
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