BWF Taipei Open: Ayush stuns third seed Lee Chia-hao

Taipei (Chinese Taipei): In a big upset, World No. 44 Ayush Shetty defeated World No. 13 Lee Chia-hao of Chinese Taipei, a recent runner-up at the All-England Championships, to advance to the Round of 16 in the Taipei Open, a BWF Super 300 badminton tournament, here on Tuesday.

The 20-year-old Shetty secured the victory in straight games, brushing aside third seed Lee 21-17, 21-18 in 50 minutes in a match played on Court 1 of Taipei Arena.

Former World No.1 Kidambi Sikanth defeated compatriot S.Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian in straight games to reach the pre-quarterfinals on Tuesday as India continued to experience mixed results. Srikanth defeated Subramanian 21-16, 21-15 in 35 minutes in a second-round clash.

Unnati Hooda beat fellow Indian Anupama Upadhyaya 21-13, 21-17 in the women’s singles second round, Tharun Mannepalli overcame Shogo Ogawa of Japan 21-17, 19-21, 21-12 in 70 minute encounter while the women’s doubles pair of Rashmi Ganesh and Sania Sikkandar went down to Japanese pair of Rui Hirokami/Sayaka Hobara 8-21, 10-21. In men’s singles, Maisnam Meiraba lost to seventh seed Brian Yang of Canada 23-21, 21-12 in men’s singles while Akarshi Kashyap was beaten 9-21, 12-21 by local star Hung Yi-Ting in a women’s singles Round of 32 match.  (IANS)

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