<p>Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal and P V Sindhu entered the quarterfinals of the USD 750,000 Star Australian Super Series today after posting comfortable victories in their respective women's singles second round matches here.<br /><br /></p>.<p>However, India's campaign was over in both the men's singles and men's doubles events.<br /><br />As expected, world No. 8 Saina had an easy outing against compatriot P C Thulasi, who she beat 21-18 21-15 in a 42-minute battle, while eighth seeded Sindhu took just 31 minutes to overcome Thailand's Nichaon Jindapon 21-13 21-7.<br /><br />The opening game saw some fine exchange of shots between the two Indians with Thulasi giving a good fight to her more experienced and celebrated compatriot.<br /><br />Though Saina took a 3-0 lead, Thulasi was quick to make it 3-3. Then it was neck and neck battle till 15-15 before the Olympic bronze-medallist shuttler upped the ante and used all her experience to steal the first game.<br /><br />In the second game, Thulasi completely ran out of steam even as a dominating Saina, seeded sixth, kept on widening the gap to eventually close the door on her lesser known opponent.<br /><br />Saina will clash with Eriko Hirose of Japan in the last eight stage of the competition.<br />For Sindhu, it was a cake walk today as she bagged a total of 42 points as compared to just 20 won by her rival.<br /><br />The only time the scores were tied in the opening game was at 1-1. Thereafter, it was the world no. 10 Indian all the way. Sindhu first opened up a 4-1 lead before extending it to finally wrap it up easily.<br /><br />In the second game, however, the Thai shuttler posed some competition to the Indian but the fight lasted only till the seventh point. At 7-7, Sindhu broke off, reeling 14 straight points to seal it 21-7.<br /><br />She will next take on Carolina Marin of Spain.<br /><br />Meanwhile, world no. 77 B Sai Praneeth fought hard before going down 15-21 21-8 19-21 to sixth seed Chinese Zhengming Wang in a match that lasted an hour.<br /><br />In the men's doubles, it was curtains for the two remaining Indian pairs.<br /><br />While Alwin Francis and Arun Vishnu lost 18-21 9-21 to third seeded combo from Taipei, Lee Sheng Mua and Tsai Chia Hsin in round two, Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Akshay Dewalkar went down 13-21 19-21 to Korea's Sung Hyun Ko and Baek Choel Shin to bow out of the tournament.</p>
<p>Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal and P V Sindhu entered the quarterfinals of the USD 750,000 Star Australian Super Series today after posting comfortable victories in their respective women's singles second round matches here.<br /><br /></p>.<p>However, India's campaign was over in both the men's singles and men's doubles events.<br /><br />As expected, world No. 8 Saina had an easy outing against compatriot P C Thulasi, who she beat 21-18 21-15 in a 42-minute battle, while eighth seeded Sindhu took just 31 minutes to overcome Thailand's Nichaon Jindapon 21-13 21-7.<br /><br />The opening game saw some fine exchange of shots between the two Indians with Thulasi giving a good fight to her more experienced and celebrated compatriot.<br /><br />Though Saina took a 3-0 lead, Thulasi was quick to make it 3-3. Then it was neck and neck battle till 15-15 before the Olympic bronze-medallist shuttler upped the ante and used all her experience to steal the first game.<br /><br />In the second game, Thulasi completely ran out of steam even as a dominating Saina, seeded sixth, kept on widening the gap to eventually close the door on her lesser known opponent.<br /><br />Saina will clash with Eriko Hirose of Japan in the last eight stage of the competition.<br />For Sindhu, it was a cake walk today as she bagged a total of 42 points as compared to just 20 won by her rival.<br /><br />The only time the scores were tied in the opening game was at 1-1. Thereafter, it was the world no. 10 Indian all the way. Sindhu first opened up a 4-1 lead before extending it to finally wrap it up easily.<br /><br />In the second game, however, the Thai shuttler posed some competition to the Indian but the fight lasted only till the seventh point. At 7-7, Sindhu broke off, reeling 14 straight points to seal it 21-7.<br /><br />She will next take on Carolina Marin of Spain.<br /><br />Meanwhile, world no. 77 B Sai Praneeth fought hard before going down 15-21 21-8 19-21 to sixth seed Chinese Zhengming Wang in a match that lasted an hour.<br /><br />In the men's doubles, it was curtains for the two remaining Indian pairs.<br /><br />While Alwin Francis and Arun Vishnu lost 18-21 9-21 to third seeded combo from Taipei, Lee Sheng Mua and Tsai Chia Hsin in round two, Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Akshay Dewalkar went down 13-21 19-21 to Korea's Sung Hyun Ko and Baek Choel Shin to bow out of the tournament.</p>