After a mixed day at the BWF World Championships in Nanjing in China on Wednesday, India will look to up the ante on Day 4 at the competition.
Both Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu will be in action in the women’s singles draw in action today. Among the men, Kidambi Srikanth and B Sai Praneeth will be looking to make it to the next round of their single draw.
In the doubles category also, Ashwini Ponnappa and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy will be playing their mixed doubles match.
Indians in Action (Singles)
- Saina Nehwal vs Ratchanok Intanon - 3.30 pm (tentatively)
- B Sai Praneeth vs Hans-Kristian Vittinghus - 5.30 pm (tentatively)
- PV Sindhu vs Sung Ji-hyun - 6.00 pm (tentatively)
- Kidambi Srikanth vs Darren Liew - 6.00 pm (tentatively)
Indians in Action (Doubles)
- Ashwini Ponnappa and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy vs Goh Soon Huat and Shevon Jemie Lai – 11.30 am (tentatively)
All matches will be live on Star Sports 2 and Star Sports 2 HD.
On Day 2, PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth notched up contrasting wins to progress to the pre-quarterfinals but world no 11 H S Prannoy suffered a shock defeat to unheralded Brazilian Ygor Coelho to bow out of the World Championship in Nanjing in China on Wednesday.
Olympic silver medallist Sindhu, who had got a bye in the first round, opened her campaign with an easy 21-14 21-9 win over Indonesia's Fitriani.
Srikanth, seeded fifth, recovered from a slump during the hard-fought contest to see off Spain's Pablo Abian 21-15 12-21 21-14 in a second-round match that lasted 62 minutes.
B Sai Praneeth also entered the next round after defeating Spain's Luís Enrique Penalver 21-18 21-11 to set up a meeting with Denmark's Hans-Kristian Solberg Vittinghus.
However, Prannoy and Sameer Verma bowed out of the tournament.
It also turned out to be a disastrous day for the Indian doubles pairs as all of them lost their respective matches to crash out of the prestigious tournament.
Commonwealth Games silver medallists Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty did all the hard work but couldn't go the full distance, losing narrowly 18-21 21-15 16-21 to world no 8 Denmark pair of Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen in men's doubles.
Ashwini Ponnapa and N Sikki Reddy were no match for second seeded Japanese combination of Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota, going down 14-21 15-21 in the second round women's doubles event.
National champions Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy waged a gallant battle before losing 24-22 13-21 16-21 to seventh seed Takuto Inoue and Yuki Kaneko of Japan in men's doubles.
(With inputs from PTI)
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