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Saina, Sindhu win; Kashyap loses in Asia Championship

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Wuhan: World’s top-ranked women’s shuttler Saina Nehwal and P.V. Sindhu won their respective matches but Parupalli Kashyap was beaten in the Asia Championships here on Thursday.
Saina defeated Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara 21-14, 10-21, 21-10 in a see-saw encounter lasting an hour and seven minutes. She got a bye and a walkover in the first two rounds of the competition.
The Indian will next take on fifth seed Tzu Ying Tai of Chinese Taipei on Friday.
Sindhu beat Macau’s Teng Iok U 21-8, 21-9 in her Round of 16 match. She will next face top seed Li Xuerui in the quarters.
But Kashyap went down fighting against Chinese seventh seed Zhengming Wang 23-21, 17-21, 8-21 in a match that lasted 67 minutes.
Also making their exit were Arun Vishnu and Aparna Balan, in the mixed doubles event, who lost 13-21, 5-21 to China’s Kai Lu and Yaqiong Huang.
The men’s doubles pair of Manu Attri and Sumeeth Reddy also were bested by China’s Xiaolong Liu and Zihan Qiu in 34 minutes with the score reading 10-21, 13-21. (IANS)

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