Star Indian shuttler PV Sindhu needed to dig deep to beat Denmark’s Line Christophersen within the ladies’s singles opening spherical, whereas Lakshya Sen surprised world No. 4 Loh Kean Yew of Singapore in males’s singles of the Malaysia Masters, on Wednesday. Sindhu, seeded sixth, needed to toil for one hour and two minutes to get the higher of Christophersen 21-13 17-21 21-18 and preserve her superiority over the world no. 33 Dane, who the Indian had defeated 4 occasions earlier. The two-time Olympic medallist Indian, ranked thirteenth on this planet, will subsequent play Japan’s Aya Ohori.

World No. 22 Sen received the higher of seventh seed Yew in three video games 21-10 16-21 21-9 in a gruelling spherical of 32 match that lasted 55 minutes. Sen faces Ng Ka Long Angus of Hong Kong within the pre-quarterfinals.

Earlier, HS Prannoy dished out a superlative show to stun world quantity six Tien Chen Chou of Chinese Taipei. World no. 9 Prannoy held his nerves after going a recreation all the way down to upset Chou, ranked sixth, 16-21 21-14 21-13 in his opening match to enter the pre-quarterfinals.

Prannoy will subsequent lock horns towards Shi Feng Li of China.

The different Indian man to enter the second spherical was Kidambi Srikanth, who defeated Toma Junior Popov of France 21-12 21-16.

He will probably be subsequent be up towards Thailand’s Kunlavut Vitidsarn, seeded eighth. However, it was curtains for qualifier Ashmita Chaliha, Aakarshi Kashyap and Malvika Bansod within the ladies’s singles competitors as they suffered straight-game defeats to crash out within the opening spherical.

While Ashmita misplaced 17-21 7-21 towards fourth seed Yue Han of China, Aakarshi was proven the door by prime seed Japanese Akane Yamaguchi 17-21 12-21.

Malvika was no match for second seed Zhi Yi Wang of China as she misplaced 11-21 13-21.