Chennai, Jul 5 (UNI) India’s Harinder Pal Sandhu made a steady start to his campaign in the South Australian (SA) Open, a PSA World Tour event, today.
The Indian scored a fluent 11-4, 11-9, 11-4 win over a qualifier Ignacio Gutierrez Keen of Argentina in the first round of the event and progressed to the quarterfinal, a SRFI release here said.
The third seeded Indian, fresh from his two title-win outings in May, looked in good nick and won in 30 minutes.
Harinder next faces fifth seed Ko Youngjo of Korea in the last eight. UNI