Saina Nehwal makes dominant return after injury, Kidambi Srikanth and Prannoy makes way to the second round of Thailand Open,2019

Saina Nehwal, who withdrew from Indonesia Open and Japan Open due to injuries, registered a straight-game win over Phittayaporn Chaiwan of Thailand.

The Star Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal returned to the court in style, registered a straight-game win over Phittayaporn Chaiwan. As she makes way to the women’s singles second round of the Thailand Open here on Wednesday.

Saina returned to action after nearly two months. Saina made last-minute withdrawals from Indonesia Open and last week’s Japan Open because of injuries.Nehwal got past Chaiwan 21-17 21-19 in her opening round contest.

The seventh seeded Indian will next play the winner of another first round match between Japan’s Sayaka Takahashi and Ruseli Hartawan of Indonesia.

Fifth seed Srikanth was made to toil hard for one hour and seven minutes by Chinese qualifier Ren Peng Bo before the Indian came out victorious 21-13 17-21 21-19. Srikanth will be up against Thailand’s Khosit Phetpradab in the second round.

Prannoy defeated Hong Kong’s Wong Wing Ki Vincent of 21-16 22-20, while Kashyap came from a game down to beat Israel’s Misha Zilberman 18-21 21-8 21-14.

Both Prannoy and Kashyap have tough second round encounters in hand as they are up against sixth-seeded Japanese Kenta Nishimoto and third seed Chou Tien Chen of Taipei respectively.

Subhankar Dey was handed a walkover by top seed and world number 1 Kento Momota of Japan in his opening round contest.

Sourabh Verma fought hard for 64 minutes against seventh seed Kanta Tsuneyama of Japan before going down 21-23 21-19 5-21 in his opening match.

Earlier in the day, the mixed doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa recorded one of the biggest wins of their career, stunning Olympic silver medallists Chan Peng Soon and Goh Liu Ying in the first round.The unseeded Indian pair battled for one hour and two minutes to get past the fifth-seeded Malaysian duo of Soon and Ying 21-18 18-21 21-17.

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