TIL Desk Sports/ Three Indians will feature in the semi-finals of the French Open Super Series badminton tournament after Kidambi Srikanth, H S Prannoy and P V Sindhu won their quarter-final matches in Paris on Friday.
While Srikanth, who won the Denmark Open last week, rallied splendidly to overcome Shi Yuqi of China in a late night match, Prannoy got the better of Jeon Hyeok-jin of South Korea, winning 21-16, 21-16.
Srikanth, who is on course for his fourth Super Series title of the year, had things his way after losing the first game to prevail 8-21, 21-19, 21-9 and make the last four stage in the men’s singles.
He will meet compatriot Prannoy on Saturday. In the other semi-final, Denmark’s Anders Antonsen will meet Kenta Nishimoto of Japan. Earlier in the day, World Championship silver medallist Sindhu beat Chen Yufei of China 21-14, 21-14 to storm into the women’s singles semi-finals, where she will meet Akane Yamaguchi of Japan.
