Ashwini sails through

Ashwini Ponnappa reached the pre-quarterfinals of the women’s doubles and mixed doubles categories pairing up with Pradnya Gadre and Tarun Kona respectively at the Macau Open Badminton Grand Prix Gold here on Wednesday.

Results (Macau Open Badminton Grand Prix Gold, Indians unless specified):
Men (second round): K Srikanth bt Min Ki Kim (South Korea) 21-18, 10-21, 22-20.
Doubes (first round): 7-Gideon Markus Fernaldi/ Agripinna Prima Rahmanto Putra (Indonesia) bt Pranaav Chopra/ Akshay Dewalkar 21-8, 21-16; Tarun Kona/ Arun Vishnu bt Evgenij Dremin/ Sergey Lunev 12-21, 21-18, 21-17.

Women (first round): 8-Adrianti Firdasari (Indonesia) bt Arundhati Pantawane 21-19, 21-15; 3-Li Han (China) bt P C Thulasi 21-13, 21-7; Hsiao Ma Pai (Taipei) bt Tanvi Lad 21-11, 21-17.
Doubles: 6-Vivian Kah Mun Hoo/ Khe Wei Woon (Malaysia) bt Aparna Balan/ Siki Reddy N 21-11, 21-18; Pradnya Gadre/ Ashwini Ponnappa bt 2-Lok Yan Poon/ Ying Suet Tse (Hong Kong) 21-19, 21-19.

Mixed doubles (first round): Tarun Kona/ Ashwini Ponnappa bt Thitipong Lapoe/ Peeraya Munkitamorn (Thailand) 21-18, 21-17.