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Star shuttlers P V Sindhu and H S Prannoy received their respective singles matches as India made it to the quarterfinals of the Asia Mixed Team Badminton Championships as group toppers after defeating Malaysia in Dubai on Thursday. Prannoy started the proceedings for India of their remaining Group B match and needed to battle arduous towards world no.4 Zii Jia Lee earlier than beautiful his rival 18-21 21-13 25-23 within the males’s singles match that lasted one hour and 10 minutes.
In distinction, Sindhu took simply 34 minutes to beat lower-ranked Ling Ching Wong 21-13 21-17 within the ladies’s singles and provides India 2-0 lead.
But the boys’s doubles pair of Dhruv Kapila and Chirag Shetty suffered a 16-21 10-21 defeat to the duo of Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik as Malaysia made it 1-2.
Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand then gave India the successful 3-1 lead as they shocked Commonwealth Games champions Pearly Tan and Thinaah Muralitharanto 23-21 21-15 at hand India an unassailable 3-1 lead India had earlier overwhelmed Kazakhstan and UAE 5-0 every of their first two group matches.
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