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There are some mouthwatering clashes tomorrow as Sai Praneeth takes on Kidambi Srikanth and HS Prannoy taking on Viktor Axelsen

And Sindhu wins it 21-13. It was as easy as it gets for Sindhu!
That was the last match for the day for India! We wll see you tommorow!

Sindhu lead 16-11! She has always been ahead of Deng since levelling 9-9 in the first game before the break!

9-13 to Deng as the shuttler makes late surge here! But, she has to hold to on her serve for Sindhu has been destructive when she has been given time to start!

Sindhu goes into the break 11-4. Her momentum was momentarily halted by Deng in the early stages of the game but Sindhu got back on track fast.

Deng has cut the lead back to 3-5. Finally, some showing by the Hong Kong shuttler.

Sindhu has taken an early 3-0 lead here. The match already looks over. Deng hasn;t had a winner in the last nine points!

And Sindhu takes the first game 21-11. From 15-11, Sindhu wins six straight points in a row!

And Sindhu is bringing all the momentum with her here! She leads 18-11 here! SHe ks just breezing past the Hong Kong opponent!

And what a comeback! Sindhu levels at 9-9 and 10-10 before going into the break 11-10.

Sindhu has come back stronger at 8-9 although Deng still has the lead!

And Sindhu has started on the backfoot here with Deng racing to four straight points to lead 4-1.

And it is time for the last big match of the day as PV Sindhu takes on Hong Kong's Deng Joy Xuan.
Both the players are warming up.

And Srikanth wins the second game 21-16!

Srikanth leads 18-11. He is three points away from a win! He will be facing Sai Praneeth tomorrow and mind you, it won;t be an easy game whatsoever!

Guangzu has made a slight comeback here at 10-15 but that shouldn't concern Srikanth just yet!

Srikanth leads 11-3 at the break. The Indian looks to be in top form! Guangzu isn't seeing any return from this one!

Srikanth lead 3-2 in the second. He has to go home early it seems! 

And this is as easy as it gets for Srikanth! He wins the first game 21-12. This match might be over already!

Srikanth is running away with the game now! He is leading 18-10!

And it is all Srikanth in the other match! He went into the break 11-6 against Guangzu.

India's Saurabh Sharma and Anoushka Parikh lost 13-21, 9-21 to Russia's Rodin Alimov and Alina Davletova.

Srikanth, for a change, has started stronger this match. He is leading Guangzu 9-5 in the first game!

The big match has started - Kidambi Srikanth vs Lu Guangzu!

Prannoy wins the third game 21-17! 
He will play Viktor Axelsen in the quarters!

Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy are leading 18-13 in the second game. It looks like a matter of time now!

Mixed Doubles-

Tinn Isriyanet and Kittisak Namdash defeated Kapil Choudhary and Shubham Yadav 21-15, 21-14.

Prannoy leads Jorgensen 16-10 in the decider and a six-point lead should be decent enough to see the Indian progress in the end!

Women's doubles

India's B Venkata Ramya Tulasi Bailupudi and Shivani Santosh Singh lost 6-21, 9-21 to Greysia Polii and Apriyani Rahanyu!

Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy have won the first game 21-18!

And Prannoy goes down 22-20! This match goes to the decider! 

Jorgensen and Prannoy are level at 20-20 in the second game!

The star women's doubles of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy are trailing 13-10 to China's Chen Xiaofei and Zhou Chaomin

Meanwhile, Jorgensen has returned stronger in the second game leading 11-7 at the break.

In the mixed doubles match India's Saurabh Sharma and Anoushka Parikh have lost to Russian pair Alina Davletova and Rodion Alimov 21-19, 12-21, 18-21.

And Prannoy wins the first game 21-19. It has been fairly easy for the Indian here.

HS Prannoy narrowly lead Jorgensen 19-17 in the first game!

In the men's doubles, Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy have shown some class to win the first game 25-23 against China's Huang Kaixiang and Wang Zekang.
They go into the break leading 11-10.

In another match, HS Prannoy is leading Denmark's Jorgensen 15-10 in the first game!

Subhankar loses the second game 21-13.
That's the end for him in the tournament! But, he showed promise and hopefully will be taking it to the next level in the coming months!

Subhankar Dey has run out of fuel it seems. He goes into the break trailing 11-7 in the second game.
He showed some resilience in the ending stages here as he won three straight points

Subhankar Dey has lost the first game 21-16. After such a lively start, this was a dampener. But, he did follow a similar pattern against Sugiarto yesterday!

After going into the breaking trailing by just one point, Wang has opened up a guge five-point lead over Subhankar at 15-10.

8-8! Wang has really turned this thing around!

And we have had a lively start here!

After Subhankar Dey won six straight points, Wang has won four of his own to make it 6-4!

Yet another big match of the day is going to start as Subhankar Dey takes on Wang Tzu Wei!

Beating Tommy Sugiarto last day, Dey should be brimming with confidence!

China's Ren Xiangyu and Zhou Chaomin overcame the challenge of Maneesha K and MR Arjun 21-16, 21-17 in the mixed doubles category.

In the men's doubles category, India's Pranav Jerry Chopra and Shivam Sharma have defeated Aniruddha Mayeka and Viney Kumar Singh 21-15, 21-11.

The India women's pair Aparna Balan/ Sruthi KP has beaten Hing Kong's NG Wing Yung 21-19, 7-21, 21-17.

Mia eventually wins the third game 21-13 to oust the Indian! 

An interesting clash is going on between Riya Mookherjee and Mia Blichfeldt here!
After Mookherjee was humiliated 8-21 in the first game, she came back to win the second game 21-17! 

Parupalli Kashyap has the second game 21-13 and has advanced into the quarter finals! He will meet the winner of Subhankar Dey/ Wang Tzu Wei there.

Parupalli Kashyap has won the first game 21-11! It is as easy as it can get for him!

And that is it!

Sai Praneeth beats Sameer Verma 18-21, 21-16, 21-15.

Praneeth will face either Srikanth or Lu Guanzu!

Praneeth opens up a five-point gap. 20-15 he leads!

In another match, Parupalli Kashyap is leading 6-4 against Thailand's Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk.

Praneeth leads 17-15 now! Sameer has been inconsistent since his win in the first game! He needs to get it back!

14-14!

That's what we expected from this clash! Both the shuttlers are exhausted and the decider should go down to the wire! 

And Sameer is closing down now! Form 12-7 down, he has won six consecutive points to lead 13-12!
No one is leaving an inch of space now!

And Praneeth takes the lead into the break this time! 11-7 to Praneeth and he will have to keep his four-point lead intact!

And Sameer stops the onslaught! Praneeth levels at 5-5 before winning four straight points to lead 9-5. But, Sameer stops the streak and gets two!

It is 7-9 now!

Praneeth leads 7-5! He is absolutely on the top of his game! 

Oh! Just as I say!
Praneeth has made a comeback. He cuts it back to 4-5 now!

Sameer Verma has again taken the lead in the third game. He is leading 4-1 now and Praneeth needs to recover fast from the intense second game!

And Praneeth wins the second game!
Trailing 11-9 at the break, Praneeth levelled things at 13-13 before opening a two-point lead. From there, Sameer has always been the second best as he went on to lose the second game 16-21.

Meanwhile, Praneeth is looking to make a late comeback here as he leads 17-16 in the second game. A win here for Praneeth could see the match go into the decider!

In other matches India saw two doubles pair bowing out in the round 2. While women's doubles pair of Pooja Dandu/Sanjana Santosh lost 11-21, 15-21 to Malaysia's Vivian Hoo/Yap Cheng Wen, Pranav Jerry Chopra/ N Sikki Reddy lost 21-19, 19-21, 14-21 to Indonesia's Hafiz Faizal/Gloria Widjaja!

Sameer Verma goes into the break 11-9 in the second game! This is a one way riot going on now and Praneeth would need to repeat yesterday's feat to take the match to the decider!

Sameer Verma has taken the first match 21-18. It was intensely competitive with Praneeth matching toe to toe with his opponent till 15-15, following which Sameer opened up a four-point lead at 19-15. That was enough for Praneeth to trail!

The much-awaited clash between Sai Praneeth and Sameer Verma has started! And as things go, Sameer has taken a narrow one-point lead over Praneeth at the moment.

Sameer 5-4 Praneeth. 

With the tournament moving on to the big fights after two days of relentless matches, India Open would see the likes of PV Sindhu, Kidambi Sirkanth, HS Prannoy and more facing sterner tests today. The biggest match, today would probably be the clash of B Sai Praneeth and Sameer Verma.

The first big match of the day would the all Indian round two clash between Sai Praneeth. Both the shuttlers had to dig deep to churn out a win yesterday. Sai Praneeth was given a real challenge by Kartikey Gulshan Kumar, who won the first game itself to clarify that he was no pushover, before he came back to win the next two games to progress. Though Sameer didn’t have to go to the decider, Rasmus Gemke did make life difficult for him.

In other matches, Srikanth, quite expectantly, had to go through the grueling challenge by Wong Wing Ki Vincent as the Hong Kong shuttler took the match to the third game and was only beaten narrowly. In another match, PV Sindhu had to overcome the challenge of young Mugdha Agrey and it was fairly easily. The limelight was, however, stolen by Subhankar Dey who defeated Tommy Sugiarto.