Commonwealth Games medallist Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Pullela defeated Ukraine's Polina Buhrova and Yevheniia Kantemyr in the second round of the women's doubles in the Indonesia Open BWF Super 1000 event here on Wednesday.
Sathish Kumar Karunakaran and Aadya Variyath kept India’s hopes afloat at the Indonesia Open Super 1000 badminton tournament, advancing to the second round of the mixed doubles on Wednesday.
Two-time Olympic medallist P.V. Sindhu overcame stiff resistance from her Japanese nemesis Nozomi Okuhara in a thrilling three-game encounter in the Round of 32 at the Indonesia Open on Tuesday, even as Lakshya Sen and HS Prannoy suffered first-round exits.
Kidambi Srikanth, defeated compatriot Lakshya Sen and Prannoy overcame NG Ka Long Angus of Hong Kong in the second-round matches.
Sindhu, will now face world No. 3 Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei, who is also the defending Indonesia Open champion, in round two.
Notably, this will be PV Sindhu's first final of 2019 and she has been absolutely convincing in this tournament winning matches with relative ease.
Although her opponent Nozomi Okukara was seeded third for the competition and started as favourites to win the match, she was given absolutely no window to make a comeback.
Fifth-seed Sindhu, who is eyeing her first title of the season, defeated Blichfeldt 21-14, 17-21, 21- 11 in a match that lasted for 62 minutes.
Fresh from a month-long break from badminton after a hectic schedule, Sindhu and Srikanth won their matches against Aya Ohori and Kenta Nishimoto respectively.
Bhullar had six birdies, a hole-in-one against a double bogey and a late bogey on 16th.
