Surabhi Gorebal, Pune
The two times medal winner in the Olympics, PV Sindhu, has once again raised the bar with a victory in the US Open by defeating an Indian Origin American opponent, Diksha Gupta, with a score of 21-15, 21-12 within 27 minutes of entering the second round.
Lakshya Sen, who recently won the Canada Open Super 500 champion title, has again bagged a victory by defeating his opponent Kalle Kaljonen from Finland in a men’s singles match in the US Open Super 300 badminton tournament.
At the same time, Sankar Subramanian defeated his opponent Nhat Nguyen from Ireland with the score of 21-11, 21-16 in the tournament’s first round after he played two tough qualifying matches.
After a highly tiring three-game encounter, B Sai Praneeth was defeated by player Li Shi Feng from China, the world’s No. 7 player at 23. Praneeth stood at 16-21, 21-14, 21-19 before ultimately going down in one hour and 14 minutes.
Ruthvika Shivani of India, who stood at rank 61 among women’s singles competitors, was defeated by Lin Hsiang Ti of Chinese-Taipei with a score of 14-21, 11-21 in another match.
Parupalli Kashyap, a former Commonwealth Games winner who also stood at the 6th rank in the world, lost his match against Koo Takahashi of Japan on Tuesday at the halfway point after a prolonged 21-23, 7-11. Rohan Midha of England was his opponent, and he had won their first match with the score of 21-19, 21-17.
However, Chinese Taipei’s Lin Yu Chieh and Su Li Wei defeated Krishna Prasad Garaga and Vishnuvardhan Goud Panjala in the men’s doubles opening round, 14-21, 14-21.
The division of the BWF world tour is made into six levels: eleven Super 300s, seven Super 500s, Six Super 750s, four Super 1000s, and the World Tour Finals. The other divisions that offer ranking points are The BWF Tour Super 100 levels and others.