Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand reached the quarter-finals of the Denmark Open Super 750 badminton tournament with a straight-games win over the fifth-seeded Indonesian pair of Rachel Allessya Rose and Febi Setianingrum, according to The Bridge and the Press Trust of India reports carried by other outlets. The Indian pair won 21-16, 21-17 in 45 minutes in the second round.
The winning margins were five points in the first game and four in the second, which are IndiaX24’s calculations from the published scores. The reports reviewed do not give details of the rallies, who led at the intervals or the match statistics.
Tanvi Sharma also advanced to the quarter-finals, according to The Bridge’s headline, which says that Treesa-Gayatri and Tanvi Sharma moved into the last eight. The reports reviewed do not give the name of Tanvi’s opponent or the score of her match.
Other Indian players did not progress. Kidambi Srikanth lost in the second round to France’s Alex Lanier, according to a Bytes Europe headline, and ETV Bharat describes it as a second-round exit as India’s poor run continues. Ashmita Chaliha also lost, according to ESPN’s round-up of Indian sport for 15 October. The scores of those matches were not available in the sources reviewed.
The men’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty suffered a surprising early exit with a second-round defeat, and Ayush Shetty also lost, according to the reports. The reports reviewed do not say who beat them or give the score.
ETV Bharat’s report says that India’s men’s losses continue, and The News Mill’s headline says that Srikanth’s exit came as India’s men’s losses continued. That suggests that the men’s singles and doubles events had few Indian players left by the end of the day. The number of Indians left in the draw was not given in the reports.
The Denmark Open is a Super 750 event on the BWF World Tour, according to The Bridge, which makes it one of the higher-ranked tournaments of the tour after the Super 1000 events. The ranking points are not given in the reports reviewed.
The quarter-final of Treesa and Gayatri will be against an opponent that the reports did not name. The reports reviewed do not give their world ranking. IndiaX24 will report their quarter-final result.
The result is also a reminder of how hard it is to beat seeded pairs in doubles. The fifth seeds were beaten in 45 minutes, which is quick for a Super 750 match, according to the reports, and the straight-games win means the Indian pair did not have to play a deciding game. The reports reviewed do not give the head-to-head record between the two pairs.
The tournament is played in Odense, Denmark, according to the usual venue of the event, which is general background and not part of the reports reviewed. The reports do not give the dates of the quarter-finals.
IndiaX24’s earlier Denmark Open preview covered the Indian players in the draw, including P V Sindhu and Lakshya Sen. The reports reviewed for this article do not cover their latest results.
Image: Indian doubles players at a badminton medal ceremony (file photo; a stand-in image, not from the Denmark Open). Photo by Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, licensed under Government Open Data License – India, via Wikimedia Commons.
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