PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal and men's double pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty all progressed to the quarter-finals of the French Open Super 750 competition in Paris on Thursday. While Sindhu and Saina pulled off simple successes over lower-positioned adversaries, Rankireddy and Chirag dazed Indonesian world number 2 sets Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan in the second round.
Saina's was the first match of the day among the Indian unexpected. She beat Denmark's Line Hojmark 21-10 21-11 out of a match that kept going only 27 minutes to go through to the quarters She will next face South Korean A Se Young, who had taken out Sindhu a week ago in the first round of the Denmark Open.
Sindhu, then again, beat World Number 26 Yeo Jia Min 21-10, 21-13. The match kept going 34 minutes and the 24-year-old reigning world champion could next face either Taiwanese top seed Tai Tzu Ying or South Korea's Kim Ga Eun in the quarter-finals.
While Saina had beaten Hong Kong's Cheung Ngan Yi in the first round on Wednesday, Sindhu crushed Canada's Michelle Li in her opening match that was played on Tuesday.
Rankireddy and Chirag's match against Ahsan and Setiawan kept going 53 minutes. They won the match 21-16, 21-23, 23-21 and will next face Danish world no 8 Kim Astrup and Anders Rasmussen.
