Srikanth in Hong Kong Open quarters

Shuttler Kidambi Srikanth defeated his compatriot H.S Prannoy in an all-Indian men’s singles clash to enter the quarter-final of the Hong Kong open tournament here yesterday. The fourth seed Srikanth edged past Prannoy 18-21, 30-29, 21-18.

Sameer Verma also advanced as he got a walkover from his Chinese opponent Chen Long. In mixed doubles category, Satwik Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa crashed out to Lee Yang and Hsu of Chinese Taipei

In the women’s draw, third seed P.V Sindhu went down to Sung Ji-hyun of South Korea 24-26, 20-22.