India shuttler HS Prannoy sailed into the quarter final of the Taipei Open after recording a straight-game win over Indonesia’s Tommy Sugiarto here on Thursday.

Prannoy, the country’s top-ranked men’s singles player, took 36 minutes to dispatch former World Championship bronze medallist Sugiarto 21-9, 21-17 in the BWF World Tour Super 300 tournament.

The world No. 9 will play Hong Kong’s fifth seed Angus Ng Ka Long in the last-eight stage.

Former Commonwealth Games medallist Parupalli Kashyap went down 16-21, 17-21 to local favourite Su Li Yang.

It was also the end of the road for the mixed doubles pair of Sikki Reddy and Rohan Kapoor.

The Indian duo were handed a 13-21 18-21 defeat by Taipei’s Chiu Hsiang Chieh and Lin Xiao Min.

Tanya Kamath went down 11-21, 6-21 to Olympic silver medallist Tai Tzu Ying.

Easy win for Alcaraz

London: Top seed Carlos Alcaraz cruised into the quarter finals of the Queen’s Club Championships after he beat Jiri Lehecka 6-2, 6-3 on Thursday but third seed Taylor Fritz was knocked out by Adrian Mannarino.

Alcaraz is playing on grass for the first time this week since his fourth-round exit at Wimbledon last year and he is slowly getting to grips with the unfamiliar, faster surface.

“I’m happy with the level I played... I had a really solid match. I’m feeling really comfortable here on grass, getting experience and hours on grass,” the world No.2 Alcaraz said.

Fritz’s preparations for Wimbledon took a hit when the American went down in straight sets to Mannarino, the Frenchman winning 6-4, 7-6(7) to move into the quarter-finals.

Reuters