<p>India's ace shuttler Saina Nehwal stormed into the quarterfinals of the Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament with a straight game win over of Petya Nedelcheva of Bulgaria here.<br /><br />Saina, who is the defending champion and top seed here, took exactly half an hour to get the better of Nedelcheva 21-15 21-10 in the pre-quarterfinals of the women's singles event late last night.<br /><br />By virtue of this win, Saina, who reclaimed World No 2 position yesterday, took a 6-2 head-to-head lead over 23rd ranked Nedelcheva.<br /><br />Saina will next face sixth seeded Tzu Ying Tai of Chinese Taipei in the quarterfinal <br />later today.</p>.<p>Barring Saina, curtains fell on India's challenge in the tournament as all other shuttlers from the country made early exits.<br /><br />Rising star P V Sindhu made an exit from the tournament after losing to qualifier Yui Hashimito of Japan 21-23 11-21 in a second round contest of the women's singles event.<br /><br />London Olympics quarterfinalist Parupalli Kashyap also crashed out in the pre-quarterfinals of the men's singles event after losing to Wei Feng Chong of Malaysia yesterday.<br /><br />The fifth seeded Indian squandered a game advantage to lose to his ninth-seeded opponent 21-18 7-21 16-21 in a 55-minute contest.<br /><br />In another men's singles pre-quarterfinal match, H S Prannoy lost to Tien Chen Chou of Chinese Taipei 16-21 21-15 15-21 in an hour's contest.<br /><br />In men's doubles, the Indian duo of Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Akshay Dewalkar was handed a straight-game defeat by the Korean top seeds Sung Hyun Ko and Yong Dae Lee, who won 21-14 21-12. </p>
<p>India's ace shuttler Saina Nehwal stormed into the quarterfinals of the Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament with a straight game win over of Petya Nedelcheva of Bulgaria here.<br /><br />Saina, who is the defending champion and top seed here, took exactly half an hour to get the better of Nedelcheva 21-15 21-10 in the pre-quarterfinals of the women's singles event late last night.<br /><br />By virtue of this win, Saina, who reclaimed World No 2 position yesterday, took a 6-2 head-to-head lead over 23rd ranked Nedelcheva.<br /><br />Saina will next face sixth seeded Tzu Ying Tai of Chinese Taipei in the quarterfinal <br />later today.</p>.<p>Barring Saina, curtains fell on India's challenge in the tournament as all other shuttlers from the country made early exits.<br /><br />Rising star P V Sindhu made an exit from the tournament after losing to qualifier Yui Hashimito of Japan 21-23 11-21 in a second round contest of the women's singles event.<br /><br />London Olympics quarterfinalist Parupalli Kashyap also crashed out in the pre-quarterfinals of the men's singles event after losing to Wei Feng Chong of Malaysia yesterday.<br /><br />The fifth seeded Indian squandered a game advantage to lose to his ninth-seeded opponent 21-18 7-21 16-21 in a 55-minute contest.<br /><br />In another men's singles pre-quarterfinal match, H S Prannoy lost to Tien Chen Chou of Chinese Taipei 16-21 21-15 15-21 in an hour's contest.<br /><br />In men's doubles, the Indian duo of Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Akshay Dewalkar was handed a straight-game defeat by the Korean top seeds Sung Hyun Ko and Yong Dae Lee, who won 21-14 21-12. </p>