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Garaga-Roy stun Thai sixth seeds to reach Korea Masters second round
India’s unseeded Krishna Prasad Garaga and Pruthvi Krishnamurthy Roy defeated sixth seeds Chaloempon Charoenkitamorn and Worrapol Thongsa-Nga of Thailand in straight games at the Korea Masters Super 300 on Tuesday. The Indians…
The Story in Brief
India’s unseeded Krishna Prasad Garaga and Pruthvi Krishnamurthy Roy defeated sixth seeds Chaloempon Charoenkitamorn and Worrapol Thongsa-Nga of Thailand in straight games at the Korea Masters Super 300 on Tuesday. The Indians won 21-16, 21-18 in 42 minutes to enter the men’s doubles second round. They will face either Singapore’s Junsuke Kubo and Jia Hao Howin Wong or South Korea’s Young Hyuk Kim and Tae Yang Shin.
India’s other men’s doubles pair, Achutaditya Rao Doddavarapu and Arjun Reddy Pochana, lost 3-21, 10-21 to Korea’s Sol Gyu Choi and Malaysia’s V Shem Goh. In women’s doubles, Priya Konjengbam and Shruti Minshra fell 15-21, 13-21 to Japan’s second seeds Ririna Hiramoto and Kokona Ishikawa. Tushar Suveer won his first qualifying match before losing to Japan’s Shogo Ogawa.
The Indian Opinion
The easy story is that one Indian win signals a wider breakthrough, while the early exits suggest failure. Neither reading fits one day’s results. Garaga and Roy produced the clearest result, but they now face an unconfirmed opponent in the next round. The other pairs lost to seeded or highly ranked opposition, and Suveer won once before exiting. The better measure is whether Garaga and Roy can convert this upset into a third-round place.
Source: thehindu.com
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