Badminton BWF World Championships 2018: HS Prannoy defeats Abhinav Manota to enter second round

India's HS Prannoy defeated Abhinav Manota of New Zealand 21-12, 21-11 in straight games to enter the second round of BWF World Championships on Monday. 

HS Prannoy started his campaign at the World Championship in style winning the match in just 28 minutes. 

Prannoy, who missed last year's World Championship owing to an injury, completely dominated the match right from the onset and gave no chances of revival to Manota in a two-game match.

Taking the opening serve, Prannoy took the initial lead and by the mid-game interval, he was leading the first game 11-4.

A series of unforced errors by Manota gave the Indian shuttler the opportunity to settle in and soon he was way out of reach of the New Zealand player after gaining a good lead of nine points.

Back-to-back smashes from the eleventh-seeded Indian and Manota?s failure to pose any challenge helped Prannoy win the first game 21-12 in 14 minutes.
Prannoy took the opening serve in the second game as well and stunned his opponent by earning four back to back points.

Capitalizing on the opening game, Prannoy took the initial lead of five points and soon the scoreline read 16-8 in favour of the Indian shuttler.

Manota hit back with a strong rally but the effort was not enough to get past Prannoy who was on a roll.

Eventually, Prannoy registered a convincing 21-11 win in the second game to head into the second round of the championship.

Men's doubles pair of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy, who had won the Lagos International recently, defeated Bulgarian pair Daniel Nikolov and Ivan Rusev 21-13 21-18 to also make it to the second round. 

However, Sanyogita Ghorpade and Prajakta Sawant went down fighting 20-22 14-21 to Turkey's Bengisu Ercetin and Nazlican Inci in 34 minutes in the women's doubles competition.

Here are the Indians in action on Monday, 30 July: 

Women's Doubles - Bengisu Ercetin/Nazlican Inci beat Sanyogita Ghorpade/Prajakta Sawant 22-20, 21-14

Men's Doubles - Manu Attri/Sumeeth Reddy beat Daniel Nikolov/Ivan Rusev 21-13, 21-18

Men's Singles - HS Prannoy beats Abhinav Manota 21-12, 21-11

Men's Singles - Sameer Verma beats Lucas Corvee 21-13, 21-10

Mixed Doubles - Pranaav Chopra/Sikki Reddy beat Jakub Bitman/Alzbeta Basova 21-17, 21-15

Mixed Doubles - Saurabh Sharma/Anousha Parikh beat Enejoh Abah/Peace Orji 21-13, 21-12

Mixed Doubles - Rohan Kapoor/Kuhoo Garg v/s Toby Ng/Rachel Honderich

Mixed Doubles - Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Ashwini Ponnappa v/s Niclas Nohr/Sara Thygesen

(With PTI Inputs)