Anaheim (California) July 21 (IANS) Indian shuttlers Parupalli Kashyap H.S. Prannoy Sameer Verma and the men s doubles pair of Manu Attri and B. Sumeeth Reddy advanced to the quarter-finals of the US Open Grand Prix here.
Kashyap played two matches on Thursday before advancing to the third round. His first opponent Hungary s Gergely Krausz retired when the Indian was leading 21-18 17-6. The Hyderabadi then battled past Sri Lankan Niluka Karunaratne 21-19 21-10 in the pre-quarterfinals.
Top seed Prannoy stormed into the pre-quarterfinals with a 21-13 21-17 victory over Ireland s Joshua Magee. Prannoy then defeated Dutch 12th seed Mark Caljouw 21-8 14-21 21-16.
Sameer was involved in two hard-fought contests. He stretched past Croatian Zvonimir Durkinjak 21-19 25-27 21-15 in an hour and four minutes before going past Brazilian ninth seed Ygor Coelho 18-21 21-14 21-18 in a contest which lasted 60 minutes.
In the quarter-finals Sameer will meet compatriot Kashyap while Prannoy will battle it out with Japanese eighth seed Kanta Tsuneyama.
The men s doubles pair of Manu-Sumeeth took just 22 minute to brush aside Indonesians Hendra Tandjaya and Androw Yunanto 21-16 21-9.
However Manu had to exit the mixed doubles competition after he and K. Maneesha lost in the pre-quarterfinal to Malaysian fourth seeds Soon Huat Goh and Shevon Jemie Lai 16-21 12-21 in 27 minutes.
Another men s doubles combine of India Francis Alwin and Kona Tarun went down fighting against Japanese seventh seeds Hiroki Okamura and Masayuki Onodera who prevailed 21-19 9-21 21-14 in 50 minutes.
Manu-Sumeeth will meet Okamura and Onodera in the quarter-finals on Friday.
The women s doubles pair of J. Meghana and Poorvisha S. Ram lost to Japanese seventh seeds Mayu Matsumoto and Wakana Nagahara 18-21 9-21.
In the women s singles Rituparna Das and Sri Krishna Priya Kudaravalli too suffered losses. While Rituparna went down Danish seventh seed Natalia Koch Rohde 15-21 20-22 Krishna exited following an 11-21 10-21 defeat to South Korean fifth seed Jang Mi Lee.
Young men s singles player Harsheel Dani lost to Vietnamese 15th seed Tien Minh Nguyen 25-27 9-21.
--IANS
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