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Saina, Jwala-Ashwini through, Srikanth, Kashyap lose in All England
Birmingham, March 5
Saina Nehwal and women's
doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa entered the second
round, while male shuttlers Kidambi Srikanth and Parupalli Kashyap lost
in the opening round of the All England Open Badminton Championships at
the Barclaycard Arena here on Wednesday.
World No.3 Saina
registered a comfortable 21-8, 21-12 victory in 38 minutes over
qualifier and World No.53 Bellaetrix Manuputty of Indonesia. In the next
round the Olympic bronze medallist will face the winner between two
qualifiers - South Korean Kim Hyo Min and Japan's Yui Hashimoto.
World
No.5 Srikanth was taken to task by World No.14 Kento Momota of Japan.
The Indian lost the first game 18-21. He made a strong comeback in the
second game 21-12 but lost the third 15-21 to crash out in the first
round of the $500,000 Super series tournament.
Momota will meet
World No.16 Marc Zwiebler. The German staved off a strong challenge from
South Korean Lee Dong Keun 21-17, 19-21, 21-19 in an hour and 36
minutes.
World No.12 Parupalli Kashyap looked out of sorts and
lost 13-21, 12-21 in 33 minutes to sixth seed Chou Tien Chen of Chinese
Taipei.
Jwala-Ashwini defeated Malaysian team of Amelia Alicia
Anscelly and Fie Cho Soong 21-12, 20-22, 21-14 in 51 minutes. The 2011
World Championships bronze medal-winning Indian pair will meet Tian Qing
and Zhao Yunlei. The Chinese pair went past South Korea's Lee So Hee
and Shin Seung Chan 21-13, 19-21, 21-5.
Also advancing was the
men's doubles pair of Manu Attri and B. Sume eth Reddy. They overcame a
poor start against China's Chai Biao and Hong Wei. They lost the first
game 9-21 before winning the next two 21-17, 21-17.
In the second
round, the Indian pair will be up against the winner between
Indonesia's Gideon Markus Fernaldi and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo and
Germany's Max Schwenger and Josche Zurwonne.