Indian women's doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand stormed into the quarterfinals of the prestigious tournament with an impressive 21-14, 24-22 victory over Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hiroto of Japan.
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Indian women’s doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand stormed into the quarterfinals of the All England Open Badminton championships with an impressive 21-14, 24-22 victory over Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hiroto of Japan in Birmingham on Thursday. Meanwhile last year’s runner-up Lakshya Sen, HS Prannoy and Kidambi Srikanth got eliminated in the men’s singles second round. World no.6 men’s doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty also lost in the last-16 stage. Satwik-Ghirag lost 21-10, 17-21, 19-21 to Liang Wei Keng and Wang Chang of China. Lakshya, meanwhile, found the going tough against Denmark’s Anders Antonsen and lost 13-21, 15-21.
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Treesa-Gayatri, who had reached the semifinals as reserves last year, scripted a stunning win over world no.9 Japanese opponents once again to book a place in the quarterfinals of the prestigious tournament. The youngsters played brilliantly to get the better of the former world no.1 duo of Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota. In the first game, the Indian girls went into the mid-game interval with a 11-7 lead and then went on to maintain the tempo, moving to 15-9 before winning the first game with a healthy margin. The Indian duo started the second game aggressively, taking an 8-1 lead and then quickly made the score 19-12. But a lapse in concentration allowed the Japanese team to crawl their way back and make the score 20-20. Nevertheless, the World no.17 Indian pair managed to hold their nerve at 22-22, and then sealed the match with a stunning smash.
| Fixture |
| Ng Tze Yong vs Li Shi Feng |
| Anthony Ginting vs Anders Antonsen |
| Kodai Naraoka vs Lee Zii Jia |
| Shi Yu Qi vs Weng Hong Yang |
| Fixture |
| Akane Yamaguchi vs Wang Zhi Yi |
| Chen Yu Fei vs Gregoria Tunjung |
| He Bing Jiao vs Tai Tzu Ying |
| Carolina Marin vs An Se Young |
| Fixture |
| Fajar Alfan/ Muhammad Rian Ardianto vs Mohammad Shohibul Fikri/ Bagas Maulana |
| Takuro Hoki/ Yugo Kobayashi vs He Ji Ting/ Zhou Hao Dong |
| Liu Yu Chen/ Ou Xuan Yi vs Mohammad Ahsan/ Hendra Setiawan |
| Liang Wei Keng/ Wang Chang vs Leo Rolly Cornando/ Daniel Marthin |
| Fixture |
| Chen Qing/ Jia Yi Fan vs Kim So Yeong/ Kong Hee Yong |
| Zhang Shu Xian/ Zheng Yu vs Mayu Matsumoto/ Wakana Nagahara |
| Treesa Jolly/ Gayatri Gopichand vs Li Wen Mei/ Liu Xuan |
| Apriyani Rahayu/ Siti Ramadhanti vs Baek Ha Na/ Lee So Hee |
| Fixture |
| Zheng si Wei/ Huang Ya Qiong vs Yuki Kaneko/ Misaki Matsutomo |
| Rehan Kusharjanto/ Lisa Kusumawati vs Kyohei Yamashita/ Naru Shinoya |
| Seo Seung Jae/ Chae Yu Jung vs Dechapol Puavaranukroh/ Sapisree Taerattanachai |
| Robin Tabeling/ Selena Piek vs Kim Won Ho/ Jeong Ne Eun |
The 2023 All England Open Badminton Championship will commence on March 14 and end on March 19.
Badminton fans in India can live stream the event via VOOTSelect and the JioCinema app, while a few sessions will be telecast live on Sports 18 network.
