Australian Open 2019 PV Sindhu, Sameer Verma Record Victories In Opening Round
PV Sindhu and Sameer Verma entered the second round of the $150,000 Australian Open World Tour Super 300 tournament on Wednesday. While PV Sindhu beat Indonesia’s Choirunnisa 21-14, 21-9 in a one-sided affair, Verma got the better of Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia 21-15, 16-21, 21-12 in a thrilling opening round men’s singles match. Sindhu will next meet Thai Nitchaon Jindapol.
Verma, who had lost to Lee at the Sudirman Cup last month, will lock horns with Chinese Taipei’s Wang Tzu Wei in second round.
Meanwhile, B. Sai Praneeth, who had reached the finals at the Swiss Open this year, brushed aside Korea’s Lee Dong Keun 21-16, 21-14, to set up a clash against second seed Indonesian Anthony Sinisuka Ginting.
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty defeated compatriots Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy 21-12, 21-16 to enter the second round of the men’s doubles.
They will take on second seed Chinese pair of Li Junhui and Liu Yuchen.
However, it was a day to forget for Ashwini Ponnappa and N. Sikki Reddy who lost 14-21, 13-21 to Korean pair of Baek Ha Na and Kim Hye Rin.
PV Sindhu knocked out after losing 19-21, 18-21 to Thailand’s Nitchaon in second round at Australian Open.
PV Sindhu suffered a 19-21, 18-21 loss to Thailand’s Nitchaon Jindapol in second round to crash out of the USD 150,000 Australian Open World Tour Super 300 tournament on Thursday.
Meanwhile, in the men’s singles, sixth-seeded Sameer Verma also bowed out of the competition after suffering a 16-21, 21-7, 13-21 defeat in the second round against Taiwan’s Wang Tzu Wei. B Sai Praneeth, who had reached the finals of the Swiss Open this year, also lost his second-round match to Indonesia’s Anthony Sinisuka Ginting 23-25, 9-21.
In men’s doubles, the Indian pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty also exited the tournament getting beaten by Chinese pair of Li Junhui and Liu Yuchen 19-21, 18-21.
HS Prannoy and women’s doubles duo of Ashwini Ponnappa and Sikki Reddy had also crashed out of the tournament after losing their respective first-round matches on Wednesday.
The mixed doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy had also gone down fighting against Wang Chi-Lin and and Cheng Chi Ya of Chinese Taipei 17-21, 21-12, 16-21.
