Denmark Open: PV Sindhu makes winning return, Kidambi Srikanth, Sameer Verma too advance

India shuttler PV Sindhu made a winning return to the badminton arena on Tuesday and marched into the next round of the ongoing Denmark Open. Sindhu, the reigning world champion, took 30 minutes to get across Yigit, ranked 29th, 21-12, 21-10 in her women’s singles opener of the BWF World Tour Super 1000 tournament.

The fourth-seeded Indian, who had skipped the Sudirman Cup and Uber Cup Final after the Tokyo Olympics, will next face Thailand’s Busanan Ongbamrungphan.

Former champions Srikanth and Sameer also made winning starts to their men’s singles campaigns at the USD 850,000 event.

While Srikanth, who had claimed the title in 2017, outsmarted compatriot B Sai Praneeth 21-14 21-11 in 30 minutes, Sameer, ranked 28th, prevailed over Thailand’s world no 21 Kunlavut Vitidsarn 21-17 21-14 in a 42-minute clash.

World no 14 Srikanth will meet world no 1 and top-seeded Japanese Kento Momota in the second round, while Sameer is likely to face Denmark’s third seed Anders Antonsen in the next round.

The Indian men’s doubles players, however, had a mixed day in the office.

While Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty defeated the English pair of Callum Hemming and Steven Stallwood 23-21 21-15 in their opener, MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila stunned England’s world no 17 pair of Ben Lane and Sean Vendy 21-19 21-15 to make a positive start to their campaign.

But Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy lost 18-21 11-21 to Malaysia’s Goh Sze Fei and Nur Izzuddin in the opening round to bow out of the competition.

World no 7 Sindhu, who had claimed bronze at the Tokyo Games to go with her Rio silver medal, hardly broke any sweat during her opening contest against Yigit.

The Indian was up 5-4 and then kept moving ahead to comfortably pocket the opening game.

The second game was no different as Sindhu erased a 1-3 deficit to grab a 10-4 lead. Yigit made it 9-10 before the Indian held a two-point advantage at the break.

After the interval, it was one-way traffic as Sindhu sealed the contest without much ado.

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