Indian shuttlers Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand progressed to the second round of women's doubles competition after securing a straight-game win over Chinese Taipei's Huang Yu-Hsun and Liang Ting Yu at the Malaysia Masters Super 500 here on Tuesday. (More Badminton News)
Commonwealth Games bronze medallis🌱ts Treesa and Gayatri, seventh seeded, notched up a fine 21-14 21-10 win over Huang a🔯nd Liang, ranked 104, in the round of 32.
There were four Indians in men's s🌜ingles qualification round but none could make the cut for the main dಌraw.
Sat🐟hish Kumar Karunakaran, who won his maiden BWF Super 100 title at Odisha Masters last December, beat Malaysia's Cheam June Wei 21-15 21-19 before going down 21-13 20-22 13-21 to Indonesia's Shesar Hiꦑren Rhustavito.
Ayush Shetty, a bronze medall🌠ist at the World Junior Championships, beat compatriot Kartikey Gulshan Kumar 21-7 21-14 but lost 21-23 21-16 17-21 to Thailand's Panitchaphon Teeraratsakul.
Former World Junior Championships silver medaಌllist S Sankar Subramanian suffered 12ꦯ-21 17-21 to Rhustavito in the opening round of qualification.
In women's singles qualifiers, Tanya Hemanth went down 21-23 8-21 ඣto Lin Sih Yun of 💟Chinese Taipei.
In women's doubles, Palak Arora and Unnati Hooda😼 lost 10-21 5-21 to Chinese Taipei's Hsu Yin-Hui and Lin Jhij Yun to also bow out of the competition.
