The Indian men’s doubles pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Vishnuvardhan Goud Panjala entered the second round of the Canada Open with a straight-game win but former Commonwealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap exited from the badminton tournament here.
World No. 37 pair of Krishna and Vishnuvardhan, who had finished runners-up at the 2021 Orleans Masters and 2022 Syed Modi International, registered a 21-14, 21-16 win over Chen Zhi Ray and Lu Chen of Taiwan in the Round-of-32 on Tuesday.
The young Indian pair is likely to take on second seeds Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan.
On the other hand, Kashyap, a former world No. 6 who had reached the quarter finals of the London Olympics, beat Germany’s Kai Schaefer 21-14, 22-20 in the opening roundbut suffered a 17-21, 20-22loss to Lei Lan Xi China to bow out of the Super 500 tournament.
In the women’s doubles, the 95th-ranked Indian pair of Rutuparna Panda and Swetparna Panda lost to Canadians Jacqueline Cheung and Jeslyn Crow 21-15, 15-21, 9-21.
The world’s top-ranked singles player Viktor Axelsen withdrew from the tournament.
The player wrote on social media: “My body tells me that recovery followed by high quality training is what is needed over the next few weeks.”
