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In Badminton, Indian Women’s Doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand will face World Number 14, the Chinese combination of Li Wen Mei and Liu Xuan Xuan in the quarterfinals of the All England Championships in Birmingham today.
The World Number 17 and Commonwealth Games bronze medallists, Treesa and Gayatri upset former World Number one, the Japanese pair of Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota in a pulsating contest yesterday.
However, Indian challenge in the Singles has ended at the tournament. HS Prannoy, Kidambi Srikanth and Lakshya Sen bowed out of the second round of Men’s Singles.
Earlier, Star Indian shuttler PV Sindhu made a first-round exit from Women’s Singles. Men’s Doubles Pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty was also knocked out.