HS Prannoy, India’s lone bright spot at the Indonesia Open 2022, has continued his impressive run as he stormed into the semi-finals of the competition.
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HS Prannoy, India’s lone bright spot at the Indonesia Open 2022, has continued his impressive run as he stormed into the semi-finals of the competition with a straight-game win over world number 13 Rasmus Gemke of Denmark on Friday. The 29-year-old shuttler from Kerala, who was one of India’s star-performaer’s durting the Thomas Cup triumph last week, is looking to break his five-year title drought. Prannoy produced yet another impressive performance to outwit the Danish shuttler 21-14, 21-12 in 40 minutes. Going into the tie, both players had two victories each in their last head-to-head meetings. It is the semi-final appearance for the 29-year-old Indian at the Indonesia event. Prannoy had reached the last-four stage of the competition in the 2017 edition during which he had stunned former Olympic gold medalist Chen Long and Malaysian legend Lee Chong Wei on way to the semi-finals.
Come on, what did you expect? ??@PRANNOYHSPRI gets past QF hurdle with ease as he beats ??’s Rasmus Gemke 21-14, 21-12 to enter the semifinals of #IndonesiaOpenSuper1000 ?
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— BAI Media (@BAI_Media) June 17, 2022
Prannoy, who is ranked 23rd in the world, will next face China’s Zhao Jun Peng. The Indian shuttler dominated the exchanges against the Dane, whose mobility seemed to have been limited by an injury. Prannoy started the match brightly with six back-to-back points before Gemke could register himself on the scorecard. Gemke came up with a much improved performance in the second game but the Indian waited for his opponent to make mistakes and worked his angles well to keep his nose in ahead. After the break, Gemke faded away and Prannoy wrapped up the match by taking eight straight points.
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The 2022 Indonesia Open will commence on June 14 and end on June 19.
Viktor Axelsen beat Anthony Sinisuka Gintong 21-13, 19-21, 21-9
Lee Aii Jia beat Loh Kean Yew 21-18, 16-21, 22-20
Zhao Jun Peng beat Lee Cheuk Yiu 21-14, 17-21, 21-11
HS Prannoy beat Rasmus Gemke 21-14, 21-12
Viktor Axelsen vs Lee Aii Jia
Zhao Jun Peng vs HS Prannoy
Wang Zhi Yi beat Akane Yamaguchi 21-19, 21-14
He Bing Jiao beat An Se Young 15-21, 21-17, 21-14
Chen Yu Fei beat Nozomi Okuhara 21-16, 21-10
Tai Tzu Ying beat Line Hojmark Kjaersfeldt 21-13, 21-13
Wang Zhi Yi vs He Bing Jiao
Chen Yu Fei vs Tai Tzu Ying
The event will not be televised on a TV channel in India until the quarterfinals. Sports 18-1 will show the matches live beginning in the quarterfinal round. Besides, fans can watch the action on BWF’s official YouTube channel ‘BWF TV’. Live streaming can be done on VOOTSelect.
