Badminton
Hong Kong Open: Treesa-Gayatri move to pre-quarters, Priyanshu knocked out
Priyanshu Rajawat was knocked out in the first round while Treesa/Gayatri moved to pre-quarters of Hong Kong Open 2024.
Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand will open their campaign at the Denmark Open Super 750 on October 16, 2024. (FILE PHOTO: BadmintonPhoto/BWF)
Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand moved to the pre-quarterfinals while Priyanshu Rajawat was knocked out in the first round of the men's singles in the Hong Kong Open Super 500 tournament on Tuesday.
Jolly and Gayatri beat Ukraine's Polina Buhrova and Yevheniia Kantemyr 21-14 21-13 in a round of 32 match to begin their campaign on a positive note.
Panda sisters Rutaparna and Swetaparna, however, suffered an 11-21 8-21 loss to Chinese Taipei's Hsieh Pei Shan and Hung En-Tzu in their women's double round of 32 match.
Priyanshu lost to Takuma Obayashi of Japan in three games after battling for 53 minutes. Priyanshu lost 9-21, 21-16, 9-21.
Earlier on Tuesday, Chirag Sen won his round of 16 qualification match against Canada's Lai Yin Chung 21-12 21-10 but failed to clear the next hurdle, losing his tie against another Canadian Sheng Xiaodong 12-21 21-13 14-21.
Manav Choudhary lost his men's singles qualification quarterfinal to Hong Kong's Chan Yin Chak 6-21 10-21, after beating Ukraine's Oleksii Titov 21-14 21-19.
The likes of Kiran George and Aakarshi Kashyap will be in action later in the day in men's and women's singles.
The majority of the Indian shuttlers haven't started playing back on the circuit with HS Prannoy announcing a long break and the likes of Lakshya Sen, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty and PV Sindhu still not back in action.
