Categories: Badminton Sports

Saina enters second round; HS Prannoy ousted in Barcelona

Barcelona, Feb 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Veteran shuttler Saina Nehwal advanced to the women's singles second round of the USD 170,000 Barcelona Spain Masters as Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Sikki N Reddy also recorded victories in their mixed doubles first round match here on Wednesday.

Saina beat Germany's Yvonne Li 21-16, 21-14 while Pranaav and Reddy prevailed over Denmark's Mathias Christiansen and Alexandra Boje 10-21, 21-16, 21-17.

But HS Prannoy suffered a defeat at the hands of Malaysian Daren Liew 18-21, 15-21 to bow out of the meet.

Saina is keen to keep her Olympic hopes alive after enduring a rough 2019 and a bad start to this year.

Source: IANS

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