Barcelona Spain Masters: Saina Nehwal, Kidambi Srikanth Through To 2nd Round | Badminton News
Saina Nehwal beat Germany’s Yvonne Li 21-16, 21-14. © AFP
Kidambi Srikanth on Wednesday beat compatriot Shubhankar Dey 23-21, 21-18 to move via to the second one spherical of the Barcelona Spain Masters Tremendous 300. It’s the first win within the closing 4 tournaments for the previous international primary. Srikanth will now face but any other compatriot in Ajay Jayaram as he races towards time to safe qualification to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics by way of bettering his international rating.
Previous, Saina Nehwal, who like Srikanth is taking a look to enhance her rating to qualify for the Olympics complicated to the ladies’s singles 2nd spherical in Barcelona whilst Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Sikki N Reddy additionally recorded victories of their combined doubles first spherical fit.
Saina beat Germany’s Yvonne Li 21-16, 21-14 whilst Pranaav and Reddy prevailed over Denmark’s Mathias Christiansen and Alexandra Boje 10-21, 21-16, 21-17.
However HS Prannoy suffered a defeat by the hands of Malaysian Daren Liew 18-21, 15-21 to bow out of the meet.
