Mohammed Munawar stuns Ansal

September 04, 2018 09:43 pm | Updated 09:43 pm IST - HYDERABAD

Mohammed Munawar shocked teammate and third-seeded Ansal Yadav 8-21, 22-20, 22-20 in the men’s singles qualifying first round match of the Hyderabad Open badminton championship here on Tuesday.

In another upset, in the women’s singles qualifying first round, K. Vaishnavi of India got the better of third-seeded Ka Yan Fan of Hong Kong 13-21, 21-14, 21-19.

Separate seedings have been are given for the qualifying rounds.

The main draw will commence on Wednesday when familiar names like second-seeded B. Sai Praneeth, Verma brothers (Sourav and Sameer) besides the premier women’s doubles combination and top-seeded Ashwini Ponnappa and N. Sikki Reddy will be in action.

The results (qualifying):

First round: Men: D. Sarath bt Karan Choudhary 21-11, 21-16; Alap Mishra bt Abhyansh Singh 21-14, 21-16; Rumbay Ikhsan Leonardo Imanuel (Ina) bt Mariswamy Raghu 21-9, 21-17; Yin Chak Chan (HK) bt Aman Kumar 21-12, 21-18; Mohammed Munawar bt Ansal Yadav 8-21, 22-20, 22-20; Siddharth bt K. Sai Charan 21-17, 19-21, 21-14; Yash Yogi bt Susanto Andrew (Ina) 16-21, 21-17, 21-19; P. Lauhit bt Rajat Rathore 21-16, 21-13; Vasigaran Eveshgaran (Mas) bt Manish Gupta 20-22, 21-13, 22-20.

Mayank Ahuja bt Oak Ameya 21-17, 21-15; N.V.S. Vijetha bt R. Aneeth Kumar 9-21, 21-18, 21-11; K. Balraj bt Hardik Makkar 21-12, 22-24, 21-9.

Hemanth M. Gowda bt Abhishek Kulkarni 12-21, 21-13, 21-8; Kaushal Dharmamer bt Sachin Rawat 21-13, 21-14; Arintap Das Gupta bt Seong Hyun Son (Kor) bt22-20, 11-21, 21-18; K. Ajay Kumar bt Anant Shivam Jindal 21-13, 15-21, 21-12.

Women: Smiran Singhi bt Khushi Gupta 21-14, 21-17; Amolika Singh Sisodiya bt Ruhi Raju (USA) 21-10, 21-15; K. Vaishnavi bt Ka Yan Fan (HK) 13-21, 22-14, 21-19; An Se Young (Kor) bt Tanishq Mamilla Palli 21-16, 21-13.

Ritika Thaker bt Rizma Anestasy Violeta (Ina) 16-21, 22-20, 22-20; Akarshi Kashyap bt K. Preethi 21-8, 21-13; Choirunnisa Chorirunnisa (Ina) bt Purva Barve 21-17, 21-14; Sri Rahayu (Ina) bt Neha Pandit 21-12, 21-13.

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