PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal enter quarterfinals of India Open badminton

Kidambi Srikanth crashed out of the India Open after suffering a shock straight-game loss even as title-contenders Saina Nehwal and P V Sindhu progressed to the quarterfinals with facile wins, in New Delhi yesterday. 

Playing his first tournament of the new season after recovering from an abdominal muscle strain, world no 3 Srikanth suffered a 19-21, 17-21 loss to Malaysian qualifier Iskandar Zulkarnain. 

Top seed and defending champion Sindhu dumped Bulgaria's Linda Zetchiri 21-10 21-14 in the women's singles to set up a clash with eighth-seeded Spaniard Beatriz Corrales.

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mauled Denmark's Line Højmark Kjaersfeldt 21-12, 21-11 in another women's singles duel and will now face American fifth seed Beiwen Zhang next. 

Singapore Open champion B Sai Praneeth defeated Hong Kong's Hu Yun 21-10, 21-15 in the men's singles and will lock horns with third-seeded Taiwanese Chou Tien Chen next.

Commonwealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap reached the men's singles quarterfinals at a major event after overcoming compatriot Shreyansh Jaiswal 21-19, 19-2,1 21-12. He will face China's Qian Bin.Sameer Verma also entered next round and will square off against Zulkarnain.