Prannoy, Kashyap advance; curtains for Ajay in NZ Open

Auckland, August 1: HS Prannoy and Parupalli Kashyap advanced to the second round of the New Zealand Open GP on Tuesday (August 1). But it was curtains for Ajay Jayaram in the opening round.

Fourth seed Prannoy defeated Indonesia's Shesar Hiren Rhustavito 21-14, 21-16, while 15th seed Kashyap brushed aside Indonesia's Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka 21-5, 21-10.

Prannoy will meet Indonesia's Firman Abdul Kholik and Kashyap will face hosts' Oscar Guo on Wednesday (August 2).

Young shuttlers Siril Verma, Pratul Joshi, Sourabh Verma, Neeraj Vashist and Sahil Sipani also made positive starts to their campaign in the $120,000 event.

Seventh seed Sourabh beat Australian Nathan Tang 21-17, 21-15, 16th seed Siril defeated Indonesia's Riyanto Subagja 21-13, 21-12, Pratul ousted local shuttler Daxxon Vong 21-10, 21-13, Neeraj thrashed Indonesia's Androw Yunanto 21-8, 21-9, and Sahil made light work of New Zealand's Joshua Feng 21-10, 21-10.

However, Jayaram suffered a 19-21, 13-21 loss to Chia Hung Lu of Chinese Taipei. Among other Indians in fray, it was end for Siddharath Thakur, Sachin Rawat, Arun Kumar Ashok Kumar.

Sachin lost 12-21, 8-21 to Malaysia's Giap Chin Goh, while Hong Kong's Lee Cheuk Yiu defeated Siddharath Thakur 23-21, 21-14, Arun Kumar Ashok Kumar lost 16-21, 12-21 to Saputra Vicky Angga of Indonesia.

In the women's singles qualifying round, Sanyogita Ghorpade lost to 11-21, 24-22, 19-21 to Xie Yongshi of New Zealand.

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