Sports News | Odisha Masters: Chirag Sen Stuns Third Seed to Enter Quarters, Top Seed Wen Chi Hsu Ousted
Get latest articles and stories on Sports at LatestLY. India's Chirag Sen, ranked 106th in the world, came up with a stunning performance to knock out third seed Mads Christophersen of Denmark in the men's singles pre-quarterfinal of the Odisha Masters badminton tournament here on Thursday.
Cuttack, Dec 14 (PTI) India's Chirag Sen, ranked 106th in the world, came up with a stunning performance to knock out third seed Mads Christophersen of Denmark in the men's singles pre-quarterfinal of the Odisha Masters badminton tournament here on Thursday.
Top seed Wen Chi Hsu of Chinese Taipei faced a tough opponent in Lo Sin Yan Happy of Hong Kong, going down 15-21, 16-21 in the women's singles pre-quarterfinal.
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Unseeded Chirag, 25, after enjoying success against Saneeth Dayanand Shimoga (R64) and Varun Kapur (R32), put up a commendable performance against Christophersen defeating the 52nd-ranked Dane 21-10, 15-21, 21-17.
In other matches, the doubles pairs of Ashwini Ponnappa-Tanisha Crasto and Rutuparna Panda-Swetaparna Panda progressed to the quarterfinals, while Unnati Hooda and Kiran George advanced to last-eight in singles.
In mixed doubles pre-quarterfinals, the duo of Tanisha and Dhruv Kapila defeated Amri Syahnawi and Winny Oktavina Kandow of Indonesia 21-16, 21-12, while Ashwini and Rohan Kapur overcame eighth seeds Sumeeth Reddy and Sikki Reddy 21-13, 21-13.
Unnati defeated Ashmita Chaliha 21-18, 21-16 to make the quarterfinals.
Former world No. 1 and fourth seed Nozomi Okuhara of Japan came out a 21-11, 21-16 winner against Stephanie Widjaja of Indonesia in women's singles.
Unseeded Subhankar Dey caused a big upset defeating fifth seed Mithun Manjunath 21-15, 14-21, 15-21.
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