Indian pairs move up in the New Zealand Open Super 100 badminton tournament

The young Indian mixed doubles pairs of Rohan Kapoor and Kuhoo Garg and Shivam Sharma and Poorvisha S. Ram entered the second round of the New Zealand Open Super 100 badminton tournament here on Tuesday.

Rohan and Kuhoo, who had won the 2017 Hellas Open International Challenge and Iceland International challenge this year, defeated Israel’s Misha Zilberman and Ksenia Polikarpova 11-21, 21-7, 21-10 in a 42-minute match.

Shivam and Poorvisha took 32 minutes to beat the Australian pair of Niccolo Tagle and Fransisca Angelica Rahardja 21-19, 21-11.

Ajay Jayaram, Sourabh Verma, B. Sai Praneeth and Sameer Verma begin their campaign on Wednesday.

The results:

Rohan Kapoor & Kuhoo Garg bt Misha Zilberman & Ksenia Polikarpova (Isr) 11-21, 21-7, 21-10.

Shivam Sharma & Poorvisha S. Ram bt Niccolo Tagle & Fransisca Angelica Rahardja (Aus) 21-19, 21-11 .