Sridhar, Prakash reach pre-quarters of Australian Open GP
Anup Sridhar and Aditya Prakash
advanced to the pre-quarterfinals but four other Indians crashed out of the Australian Open Grand Prix`s men`s singles event in here on Wednesday.
|Last Updated: Jul 22, 2009, 07:12 PM IST|Source: Bureau
Melbourne: Anup Sridhar and Aditya Prakash
advanced to the pre-quarterfinals but four other Indians crashed out of the Australian Open Grand Prix`s men`s singles event in here on Wednesday.
Sixth seed Sridhar outplayed local player Hung Pham 21-14,
21-14 in the first round before defeating Malaysian Zulfadli
Zulkiffli 21-17, 21-18 in 37 minutes later today.
The 26-year-old will next face American Nicholas Jinadasa
in the pre-quarters tomorrow.
Prakash notched up an easy win against Australian Jacky
Wu 21-12 21-7 in the first round and then stunned third seed
Malaysian Tsuen Seng Lee 21-19, 21-19 in 39 minutes to set up a
clash with James Eunson of New Zealand tomorrow.
However, it was curtains for Gurusaidatt RMV, Abhimanyu
Singh, Anand Pawar and Aditya Elango.
After registering an easy 21-5, 21-11 win against
Australian Ashwant Gobinathan in the first match, Gurusaidatt
failed to get past Indonesian Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka and went
down 14-21, 19-21 in the second round.
Seventh seed Pawar too beat Australian Nathan David 21-13
21-5 in the first round before going down to another
Indonesian Alamsyah Yunus 21-17, 19-21, 21-14 in the second
round.
Elango also first beat local player Vincent Choo 21-8,
21-13 before losing to fifth seed French Brice Leverdez, while
Abhimanyu gave a walk over to his opponent Solomon Mensah
Nyarko of Ghana in the first round.
However, it was good news for the Indian mixed doubles
pairs as all four of them reached the pre-quarters after
winning their respective matches.
Shruti Kurian and Tarun Kona beat the eighth seeded New
Zealand combo Kevin Dennerly-Minturn and Louise Mckenzie 21-13,
20-22, 21-9, while Akshay Dewalkar and Pradnya Gadre saw off
the local pair of Chad Whitehead and Eugenia Tanaka 21-9, 21-23,
21-17 in the first round.
Another Indian pair, Jishnu Sanyal and Nitya Sosale
outlasted the Kiwi duo of Asher Richardson and Melissa Yin
21-12 21-18, while the fourth seeded pair of Arun Vishnu and
Aparna Balan beat New Zealand-Mexican combine of Bjorn Seguin
and Angulo Deyanira 21-10, 21-17.
In women`s singles, fifth seed Neha Pandit will take on
local player Louisa Ma, while Trupti Murgunde will face third
seed Kristina Ludikova in the first round tomorrow.
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