Indonesia open semifinalist P Kashyap failed to replicate the form he showed in Jakarta and was shown the door by second seed Hyun Il Lee of Korea in the first round of the Singapore Super Series on Wednesday.
However, his compatriots Ajay Jayaram, Anand Pawar and RMV Guru Sai Dutt kept the Indian hope alive by advancing to the second round. While Kashyap went down 21-18, 21-12 against the Korea, Ajay had little trouble in packing off Frenchman Brice Leverdez 21-12, 21-14. Guru shattered the hopes of local boy Zi Liang Derek Wong with a 21-12, 21-13 winner, while Pawar rallied to get the better of Guatemala’s Kevin Cordon 12-21, 21-11, 21-19.
It was a good out for India’s other Olympic bound shuttlers with the women’s doubles combination of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa thrashing Singapore’s Jiayuan Chen and Juan Gu 21-9, 21-8. Later in the day, Jwala teamed up with V Diju to beat the Indonesian combination of Markis Kido and Pia Zebadiah Bernadeth 21-18, 21-12 to advance to the second round.
Results (first round):
Men’s singlesRMV Guru Sai Dutt bt Zi Liang Derek Wong (Singapore) 21-12, 21-13
Sourabh Verma lost to Yun Hu (Hong Kong) 22-24, 21-12, 21-10
Ajay Jayaram bt Brice Leverdez (France) 21-12, 21-14
Anand Pawar bt Kevin Cordon (Guatemala) 12-21, 21-11, 21-19
P Kashyap lost to 2-Hyun Il Lee (Korea) 21-18, 21-12
Women’s singles
P V Sindhu lost to Xiao Jia Chen (China) 21-16, 21-12
Women’s doubles
Jwala Gutta/Ashwini Ponnapa bt Jiayuan Chen/Juan Gu (Singapore) 21-9, 21-8
Men’s doubles
K Tarun/Arun Vishnu lost to Thien How Hoon/Wee Kiong Tan (Malaysia) 21-9, 21-13
Mixed doubles
K Tarun/Ashwini Ponnappa lost to Noriyasu Hirata/Miyuki Maeda (Japan) 21-15, 21-17
6-Jwala Gutta/V Diju bt Markis Kido/Pia Zebadiah Bernadeth (Indonesia) 21-18, 21-12
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