Sindhu, Nehwal receive bye in opening round of Worlds
NEW DELHI: Olympic silver medallist P VS indhu and former World No. 1 Saina Nehwal received first- round byes at the World Championship starting in Glasgow, Scotland from August 21.
Two-time bronze medallist P V Sindhu will open her campaign against either Korea’s Kim H yo Minor Egypt’ s Had ia Hosny in the second round and is likely to meet China’s Sun Yu for a place at the quarterfinals.
The 2015 World Championship silver medallist Saina will take on the winner of the match between Switzerland’s Sabrina Jaquet and Ukraine’s Natalya Voytsekh and is expected to clash with Korean second seed Sung Ji Hyun for a place in the pre- quarterfinals.
India’s top male shuttler Kidambi Srikanth, who clinched two successive titles at Indonesia and Australia and reached the finals at Singapore Open, will open his campaign against Russia’s Sergey Sirant.
Among other Indian sin men’ s singles, 15th seed B Sai Praneeth, who won his maiden Super Series title beating Srikanth at Singapore, will face Hong Kong’s Wei Nan, while Ajay Jayaram will take on Austrian Luka Wraber in the opening round.
ANANDDRAWSAGAIN, STAYS JOINT SECOND
STLOUIS: Former world champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw against Sergey Karjakin of Russia to remain in joint second spot in the Sinquefield Cup chess tournament.
Known as the minister of defense, Karjakin could not really gain anything with white pieces and Anand had little trouble in executing his plans.
With his fourth draw in five games combined with a brilliant victory over Fabiano Caruana of United States in the previous round, Anand garnered 3.5 points out of a possible six.
BRONZEFORKYNAN, SHREYASI
ASTANA: Ace Indian shooter Kynan Chenai won his second bronze in asmany days, thistime in partnership with Shreyasi Singh in the mixed team trap event at the 7th Asian Championship Shotgun.
They defeated Lebanon 40-38 in the bronze medal match to win India’s fourth medal of the competition.