India’s P.V. Sindhu stormed into the third round of the World badminton championship with a 21-12, 21-17 victory over Olga Golovanova of Russia in 40 minutes in a second round women’s singles match here on Wednesday.
In other matches, the men’s doubles pair of Manu Attri and B. Sumeeth Reddy stunned the 15th-seeded Japanese duo of Hirokatsu Hashimoto and Noriyasu Hirata 21-19, 21-19 in 44 minutes to advance to the third round.
Later, Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Akshay Dewalkar pulled off a stunning 21-15, 21-17 win over the pair of Ki Jung Kim and Sa Rang Kim of Korea to progress.
However, it was curtains for the women’s doubles pair of G. Jwala and Ashwini Ponnappa as they lost their second round match to fifth seeds Qing Tian and Yunlei Zhao of China 21-16, 21-8 in just 31 minutes.
