Commonwealth Games champion P. Kashyap and H.S. Prannoy registered straight-game wins to advance to the second round of the $65,000 Canada Grand Prix badminton here.
Recovering from an injury, Kashyap, seeded 16th, defeated Peru’s Daniel La Torre Regal 21-11, 21-9, while second seed Prannoy beat Mexico’s Job Castillo 21-13, 21-15 in another men’s singles match at Markin MacPhail Centre.
Among others, Sarang Lakhanee eked out a 21-9, 17-21, 21-7 win over local shuttler Eugene Chan, while Abhishek Yelegar saw off Vietnam’s Hoang Nam Nguyen 21-15, 21-5 and Karan Rajan Rajarajan beat Croatia’s Zvonimir Durkinjak 13-21, 21-10, 21-13.
The results: First round: P. Kashyap bt Daniel La Torre Regal (Per) 21-11, 21-9; H.S. Prannoy bt Job Castillo (Mex) 21-13, 21-15; Sarang Lakhanee bt Eugene Chan (Can) 21-9, 17-21, 21-7; Abhishek Yelegar bt Hoang Nam Nguyen (Vie) 21-15, 21-5; Karan Rajan Rajarajan bt Zvonimir Durkinjak (Cro) 13-21, 21-10, 21-13; Lucas Corvee (Fra) bt Harsheel Dani 21-11, 21-7.
