China Open News

Jannik Sinner beat the world no. 57 Fabian Marozsan 6-1, 7-5 in the quarter-finals of the China Open in Beijing. Sinner dominated the early stages against Marozsan, but the Hungarian forced him to work hard to seal the victory.  

This year`s China Open, scheduled to run from September 15-20 in Changzhou, has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) said. The BWF also said in a statement the Taiwan Open (September 1-6), Korea Open (September 8-13) and Japan Open (September 22-27) had also been cancelled. The China Open was one of three BWF Super-1000 category events scheduled during the year.

The Indian pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty suffered a major blow as they crashed out of the ongoing China Open after going down in the semi-final clash of the men's doubles event of the tournament in Fuzhou on Saturday. 

Satwiksairaj and Chirag rebounded strongly from the second game down to seal a 21-18 21-23 21-11 win over Hiroyuki Endo and Yuta Watanabe of Japan and storm into the last-eight of the tournament. 

Ace Indian shuttlers B Sai Praneeth and Parupalli Kashyap on Thursday suffered a major blow as they crashed out of the ongoing China Open badminton tournament after going down in their respective second round clashes in Fuzhou. 

Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal crashed out of the ongoing China Open after suffering a shock straight-games defeat to China's Yan Yan Cai in her first round contest on Wednesday.

Sixth-seeded Sindhu, who bowed out in the pre-quarterfinals of the Denmark Open last month, will kickstart her campaign at the upcoming tournament against Yvonne Li of Germany. 

Barty will now lock horns with the winner of another quarter-final clash between third-seed Elina Svitolina of Ukraine and eigth-seed Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands.

Murray, who clinched two consecutive tour-level matches for the first time since his return, will now lock horns with either top-seeded Dominic Thiem of Austria or Chinese wild card Zhang Zhizhen for a place in the semi-final. 

Romanian tennis star Simona Halep showcased a rich vein of form as she eased past Rebecca Peterson of Sweden in straight sets to book her place in the second round of the China Open in Beijing on Sunday. 

Osaka will next square off with either Jil Teichmann of Spain or qualifier Andrea Petkovic of Germany in the second round of the tournament.  

Romanian tennis star Simon Halep, who was recently forced to retire from the Wuhan Open due to a chronic back problem, has confirmed her participation for this week's China Open. 

The Spaniard came from behind to a register a 20-22, 21-13, 21-18 win over Takahashi in a thrilling semifinal that lasted 72 minutes.  

The Rio Olympic gold medallist will now play Japan's Sayaka Takahashi on Saturday for a place in the final.  

Rio Olympic silver-medallist PV Sindhu also crashed out of the tournament after going down against Pornpawee Chochuwong 21-12, 13-21, 19-21 in the second round of the women's singles event. 

Fifth-seeded Sindhu lost 12-21, 21-13, 21-19 in a thrilling second-round contest that lasted for almost an hour.  

Sindhu took a four-point lead first up before Li fought back to get the first game level at 9-9.

Saina Nehwal lost 10-21, 17-21 to World No. 8 in just 44 minutes at the Olympic Sports Center Xincheng Gymnasium.

Srikanth had previously played in the BWF World Championships where he had lost to Thailand's Kantaphon Wangcharoen in the Round of 16.  

The Third seed and World No. 3 Sindhu defeated her Russian opponent in straight games 21-13, 21-19 in less than 30 minutes of play.