Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth opened his marketing campaign on the Thailand Masters badminton match with a straight recreation win over Chinese Taipei’s Wang Tzu Wei in Bangkok on Wednesday. The former world quantity toiled arduous for 45 minutes to get the higher of Wang 22-20 21-19 and enter the second spherical. He will tackle compatriot Mithun Manjunath who defeated Hong Kong’s Jason Gunawan 21-17 21-8 in his first spherical males’s singles match.

S Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian additionally began his marketing campaign with a 21-14 21-17 straight recreation win over Leong Jun Hao of Malaysia.

Sameer Verma made a primary spherical exit, taking place to Hong Kong’s Angus Ng Ka Long 14-21 18-21 whereas Kiran George retired after trailing 17-21 in his spherical of 32 match in opposition to China’s Lei Lan Xi.

Malvika Bansod and Ashmita Chaliha cruised to the second spherical of the ladies’s singles occasion.

While Ashmita defeated Wong Ling Ching 21-10 21-16, Malivika bought the higher of Peru’s Ines Lucia Castillo Salazar 22-20 21-8.

Malvika will subsequent face Thailand’s Busanan Ongbamrungphan, who knocked out India’s Imad Farooqui Samiya 21-14 21-18.

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