Taipei Open 2024 badminton: Tanisha Crasto-Dhruv Kapila ...
India's Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto progressed to the second round of the Taipei Open 2024 badminton mixed doubles event with a win over Chinese Taipei's Liao Chao Pang and Lin Yu-Hao on Tuesday.
The Indian pair, 97th in the badminton rankings, won their opening round match 21-17, 13-21, 21-16 against the 209th-ranked Chinese Taipei duo in 47 minutes at the BWF Super 300 tournament.
The first game began on an even note before Crasto, a Paris 2024 Olympian, and Kapila picked up momentum to win six points on the trot and make it 10-4. Liao Chao Pang and Lin Yu-Hao mounted a comeback to reduce the deficit but the Indian pair held onto their lead to win the first set 21-17.
The second game started on a similar note. However, Liao-Lin picked up pace and consistently maintained a five-point lead through the rest of the game, taking the contest into the decider.
The Chinese Taipei pair started the third game strongly and led 8-3 at one stage. However, Kapila-Crasto staged a comeback to win the final game convincingly.
The Indian badminton pair will meet Chang Ko-Chi and Lin Yen Yu of Chinese Taipei, who defeated the seventh-seeded Japanese pair Yuichi Shimogami and Sayaka Hobara, for a slot in the Taipei Open 2024 quarter-finals on Wednesday.
The rest of the Indian contingent in action at the Taipei Open 2024 failed to impress on the opening day.
The fifth-seeded Indian pair of Sathish Kumar Karunakaran and Aadya Variyath were handed a 19-21, 22-20, 21-18 loss by Hong Kong China's Lui Chun Wai and Fu Chi Yan in 55 minutes.
Ashith Surya and Amrutha Pramuthesh were defeated 21-13, 21-19 by the fourth-seeded pair of Pakkapon Teeraratsakul and Phataimas Muenwong of Thailand in their mixed doubles round of 32 match in 26 minutes.
None of the Indian badminton players competing in the qualifiers could progress to the main round of the Taipei Open on Tuesday.
Tarun Reddy Katam lost 23-21, 21-16 to Chinese Taipei's Ting Yen-Chen in the men's singles qualifiers in 41 minutes.
Saneeth Dayanand beat Thailand's Nachakorn Pusri 22-20, 21-15 in 39 minutes in his first round of men’s singles qualifiers before losing to Malaysia's Tan Jia Jie 21-16, 20-22, 21-4 in 49 minutes in the second round.
Similarly, Aryamann Tandon won his first-round match 8-21, 21-15, 22-20 against Chinese Taipei's Chen-Han Tsai in 55 minutes before falling 21-18, 22-20 against Chinese Taipei's Cheng Kai.
In the mixed doubles qualifiers, Ayush Raj Gupta and Sruti Swain lost 21-8, 21-14 to Chinese Taipei's Tseng Min Hao and Hsieh Pei Shan in 21 minutes.
On Wednesday, the Panda sisters - Rutuparna and Swetaparna - will play in the women's doubles. Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian, Sathish Kumar Karunakaran and Kiran George will feature in the men’s singles event.
In the women’s singles, Tanya Hemanth, Anupama Upadhyaya, RS Santhosh Ramraj and Aakarshi Kashyap will be in action.
