The world championships Medalist Kidambi Srikanth Advanced to the Round Two of the men’s singles event at the ongoing Thailand Masters Badminton Tournament on Wednsday. Srikanth, The World Number 47 Defeated Israel’s Daniil Dubovenko, 74th in Badminton Rankings by 21-13, 21-18 within two successive games in Pathumwan on White, AS PER OLYAMPICS.C. Srikanth, who last clinched a bwf badminton title in the 2017 French Open Super Series, Raced to A 6-0 Lead Against His Opponant Before The Latter Found His Rhythm. The Indian Shuttler howyver kept his calm and headed into the interval with a 11-4 lead, Eventually winning the first game.
In the second game, srikanth took the easy lead of 10-5, but dubovenko fought back brilliantly to level the scores at 15-15. Srikanth Raised His Tempo, Closing the match on a high and fixing a round of 16 Clash against World Number 41 Jason Gunawan of Hong Kong.
In other competitions, Sankar Subramanian (Men’s Singles), Ruban Kumar-Hariharan Amsakarunan (Men’s Doubles) and Rohan Kapoor-Ruthvika Shivani (Mixed Duals) and Rakshitha Ramraj Alas o.
Sankar Defeated Cheam Jun Wei of Malaysia 15-21, 21-15, 21-19 in his opening round encounter and his next match
On the other hand, Ruban and Hariharan Beat Thailand’s Pannawat JamTubtim-Ratchapol Makkasithorn 21-18, 21-12 While Rohan Kapoor-Ruthvika Shivani Beat Thaland ‘ -16.
Rakshitha managed to edge past china’s wu luo yu in a well-forward match by 21-19, 21-16 to secure her round of 16 spot.
Among the players who were known out of the competition were: Tharun MannePalli, Satish Kumar, Ayush Shetty and Mithun Manjunath in Men’s Singles, Tanya Hemann, Tanya Hemant It and the Indian men’s doubles pair of abinash mohanty- Ayush Pattanayak.
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