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Sai Praneeth Sourabh Verma advance to third round of Thailand Open P Kashyap crashes out
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03 June, 2017

The second seeded Saina, ranked 11 in the world, defeated Japan's Haruko Suzuki 21-15, 20-22, 21-11 to make the last-four stage following the women's singles clash that lasted one hour and nine minutes.

Nehwal took a massive 11-3 lead in the first game, before Suzuki won some points back but could not stop the second seeded Indian from taking it 21-15.

SAI PRANEETH continues his winning run in the Thailand Grand Prix Gold after securing a semi-final spot. On the other hand, Wangcharoen, the world number 102, eased into the quarter-final following his 21-19, 21-8 win over higher-ranked Wei Feng Chong in his R16 encounter yesterday.

Both Saina and Praneeth are the only remaining individuals carrying forward the Indian challenge at Bangkok. Sourabh Verma and Sai Uttejitha out of the tounament. Sourabh went down 16-21 25-23 11-21 to fifth seeded Frenchman Brice Leverdez while Sai Uttejitha Rao was knocked out after a 15-21 17-21 loss to Thailand's Pattarasuda Chaiwan. He has not dropped a set yet, with comfortable wins over Nathaniel Sulistyo, Satheishtharan and Zulkarnain and has reached his third quarter-final in the ongoing season.

Praneeth didn't break much sweat in getting across ninth seed Iskandar Zulkarnain of Malaysia 21-13, 21-18.

Prajakta Sawant and her Malaysian partner Yogendran Khrishnan lost 13-21 12-21 to local combo of Chaloempon Charoenkitamorn and Chasinee Korepap in mixed doubles.


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