Gold Coast (Australia) April 12 (IANS) Indian badminton mixed doubles pairs of Ashwini Ponnappa and Satwik Rankireddy and N.Sikki Reddy and Pranaav Chopra advanced to the quarter-finals at the 21st Commonwealth Games here on Thursday.
Ashwini and Satwik took just 25 minutes to thrash Canadian duo of Kristen Tsai and Nyl Yakura 21-10 21-7 in their round of 16 encounter at the Carrara Sports Arena here.
In the quarter-finals they will be up against the winner between Malaysia s Goh Soon Huat and Lai Shevon Jemie and Ghana s Emmanuel Donkor and Stella Amasah.
Likewise in another round of 16 tie Sikki and Pranaav edged past Singaporean pair of Danny Bawa Chrisnanta and Jia Ying Crystal Wong 21-19 21-13 in 34 minutes.
Sikki and Pranaav will next take on Malaysian pair of Chan Peng Soon and Goh Liu Ying for a place in the semi-finals.
--IANS
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