P Kashyap enter 2nd round of Taipei Open

Indian badminton player Parupalli Kashyap beat Chi Yu Jen of Chinese Taipei to advance to the second round of the Taipei Open 2022 at the Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium, yesterday. Parupalli Kashyap, beat world No. 122 Chi Yu Jen 24-22, 21-10 in the first round of the BWF Super 300 badminton tournament. The former Commonwealth Games champion will take on world No. 97 Chia Hao Lee of Chinese Taipei in the second round today.

India’s Thomas Cup team member Priyanshu Rajawat and an in-form Mithun Manjunath also won their



first-round matches. Kiran George, meanwhile, went past Ade Resky Dwicahyo of Azerbaijan 23-21, 21-17 to make the second round of the men’s singles. 

The men’s doubles pair of MR Arjun-Dhruv Kapila and Ishan Bhatnagar-Sai Pratheek also won their matches to progress. In the women’s singles, Samiya Imad Farooqui and the doubles pair of Tanisha Crasto and Shruti Mishra moved to the second round while Malvika Bansod lost to Liang Ting Yu of Chinese Taipei 21-10, 15-21, 14-21.