Ace Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth today progressed to the pre-quarterfinal round of the World Badminton Championships at Nanjing in China.
Srikanth, seeded 5th, defeated Pablo Abian Vicen of Spain 21-15, 12-21, 21-14. He will now face Malaysia’s Daren Liew for a berth in the last eight of the Men’s singles event.
HS Prannoy, B Sai Praneeth and Sameer Verma will also play their round-of-16 matches later in the day.
In Women’s singles, Olympic silver medalist PV Sindhu will face Fitriani Fitriani of Indonesia in the second round of the championships.
Saina Nehwal already entered the pre-quarterfinals defeated Turkey’s Aliye Demirbag yesterday.
In Men’s doubles, pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Sumeeth Reddy and Manu Attri will also play their round-of-16 matches today.