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New Delhi: Indian shuttlers PV Sindhu andLakshya Sen have advanced to the quarterfinals of the Thailand Open Super 500 tournament with their wins in straight sets in their respective matches in Bangkok on Thursday, May 14.

The two-time Olympic medallist Sindhu took just 28 minutes to beat Denmark’s Amalie Schulz 21-13, 21-15 in the women’s singles match, while the seventh seed Lakshya defeated China’s Zhu Xuan Chen 21-12, 21-13 in the second round of the men’s singles match, which lasted 39 minutes.

Sindhu will next face the top seed and world No.3 Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi, and Lakshya will take on the winner of the match between Chinese Taipei’s Lee Chia Hao and Thailand’s Kunlavut Vitidsarn.

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The Indian men’s duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty also qualified for the quarterfinals of the tournament. They defeated the unseeded Malaysian duo of Bryan Jeremy Goonting and Muhammad Haikal 21-12, 21-19 in 44 minutes.

The world No. 4 Indian pair will next take on the sixth-seeded Japanese duo of Takumi Nomura and Yuichi Shimogami. However, Devika Sihag, who won the Thailand Masters for her maiden Super 300 title earlier this year, suffered a defeat against Thailand’s Pitchamon Opatniputh.

The Indian duo of Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto were defeated 9-21, 15-21 by Denmark’s Mathias Christiansen and Alexandra Boje, while Rohan Kapoor and Ruthvika Shivani lost against Thailand’s Supak Jomkoh and Ornnicha Jongsathapornparn.

Ashith Surya and Amrutha Pramuthesh were also knocked out by Tsai Fu Cheng and Sung Yu-Hsuan, 22-24, 11-21. Former world No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth also suffered a defeat against Chinese Taipei’s world No. 47 Su Li Yang by 16-21, 21-11, 18-21 in a hard-fought game, which lasted one hour and 10 minutes.