The Indian women's doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand progressed to the quarterfinals of the Swiss Open with a straight-game win over compatriots Priya Konjengbam and Shruti Mishra on Thursday. (More Badminton News)
The eighth seeded Commonwealt🎉h Games bronze medallists hardly broke any🐼 sweat as they brushed aside fellow Indians Priya and Shruti, ranked 75th in the world, 21-10 21-12 in 36 minutes.
The 🐲eighth seeded Commonwealth Games bronze medallists hardly broke any s༺weat as they brushed aside fellow Indians Priya and Shruti, ranked 75th in the world, 21-10 21-12 in 36 minutes.
Later, world No. 20 Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa, who are 6,296 points ahead of Treesa and Gayatri in the Paris qualification race at ཧ12th spot, lost 17-21 16-21 to Japan's world No. 30 Rui Hirokami and Yuna Kato.
The race for Olympic qualification thus spiced up in women's doubles as only the highest-ranked Indian pair inside top 16 by April end will make the cut 🌊for Paris.
Double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu, in-form Lakshya Sen, Kidambi Srikanth, Kir🐲a𝓡n George and Priyanshu Rajawat will be in action in the singles event later in the day.
The biggest face-off will be between Sindhu and 17-year-old Tomoka Miyazaki, who had claimed the gold medal at the 2022 world junior championships, and is coming into the tour🧸nament after winning her maiden Super 300 crown at Orleans Masters in France last week.
☂Sen will take on Chia Hao Lee of Chinese Tai🐷pei, while Srikanth will face top seed Lee Zii Jia.
