Saina, Sindhu, Satwik-Chirag advance at Indonesia Masters

Jakarta Jan 25 (IANS) Saina Nehwal P.V. Sindhu and the men s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty advanced to the second round while Parupalli Kashyap exited in the first round of the $350 000 Indonesia Masters World Tour Super 500 here on Wednesday.

Saina the 2012 Olympic bronze medallist moved past Chinese seventh seed Chen Yufei 22-24 21-15 21-14 in an hour and nine minutes. The veteran will take on Chinese Chen Xiaoxin in the next round.

Second seeded Sindhu eased past Indonesian Hanna Ramadini 21-13 21-10 in 34 minutes to enter the pre-quarterfinals. The 2016 Olympic silver medallist will meet Malaysian qualifier Masgoh Jin Wei on Thursday.

If both Saina and Sindhu manage to win their respective second-round matches they will face each other in the quarter-finals.

In the men s singles Kashyap went down 18-21 18-21 in 41 minutes to Malaysian Wei Feng Chong. Sameer Verma also was knocked out of the competition losing to Japanese Kazumasa Sakai 16-21 21-12 10-21 in 53 minutes.

Satwik-Chirag stunned Japanese eighth seeds Takuto Inoue and Yuki Kaneko 21-15 21-17 in 35 minutes. The Indian pair will face Chinese Taipei s Lio Min Chun and Esu Ching Heng for a place in the quarter-finals.

But the experienced pair of Manu Attri and B. Sumeeth Reddy went out of the competition. They lost 18-21 21-16 16-21 to Chinese Taipei s Lu Ching Yao and Yang Po Han in 58 minutes.

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