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Satisfying day for Indians

New Delhi: Indian shuttlers Chetan Anand, Arvind Bhat and Anand Pawar continued their good run by notching up contrasting wins to enter the pre-quarterfinals of the Bitburger Open in Germany on Thursday.

Trupti Murgunde, who won the Czech International last week, also advanced to pre-quarterfinals in the women’s singles category.

Top seed Chetan beat Yuhan Tan of Belgium 21-19, 21-11, while 11th seed Pawar brushed aside qualifier Eli Mambwe of Zimbabwe 21-13, 21-11 to set up an all-Indian quarterfinal. Arvind thrashed Czech Jan Froehlich 21-13, 21-9 to set up a battle with 14th seed Dmytro Zavadsky of Ukraine.

Upset win

Trupti stunned fourth seed Elisabeth Cann of England 21-10, 21-14 to set up a clash with Olga Konon of Poland in the second round.

The top seeded Indian men’s pair of Rupesh Kumar and Sanave Thomas also started its campaign on a winning note by sweeping past Germany’s Andreas Heinz and Felix Schoppmann 21-12, 21-18.

However, it was curtains for Sayali Gokhale and Neha Pandit in the women’s singles.

Eighth seed Sayali was the first round casualty as she went down to Chloe Magee of Ireland 21-18, 21-14. Neha crashed out after suffering losing to Germany’s Karin Schnaase 21-23, 13-21. — PTI

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