Star shuttlers P V Sindhu and H S Prannoy gained their respective singles matches as India made it to the quarterfinals of the Asia Combined Group Badminton Championships as group toppers after defeating Malaysia in Dubai on Thursday. Prannoy started the proceedings for India of their remaining Group B match and needed to combat arduous in opposition to world no.4 Zii Jia Lee earlier than gorgeous his rival 18-21 21-13 25-23 within the males’s singles match that lasted one hour and 10 minutes.

In distinction, Sindhu took simply 34 minutes to beat lower-ranked Ling Ching Wong 21-13 21-17 within the girls’s singles and provides India 2-0 lead.

However the males’s doubles pair of Dhruv Kapila and Chirag Shetty suffered a 16-21 10-21 defeat to the duo of Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik as Malaysia made it 1-2.

Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand then gave India the profitable 3-1 lead as they shocked Commonwealth Video games champions Pearly Tan and Thinaah Muralitharanto 23-21 21-15 handy India an unassailable 3-1 lead India had earlier crushed Kazakhstan and UAE 5-0 every of their first two group matches.

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