NAGPUR: Has India found the successor for Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu in women's singles badminton? A day after Malvika Bansod ousted world no. 7 Gregoria Mariska Tunjung to register her biggest career victory, the Nagpur shuttler ended the six-year wait for an Indian women's singles player to reach the quarterfinal stage of the China Open Super 1000 badminton tournament.
On Thursday, in a nail-biting 65-minute pre-quarterfinal, 23-year-old Malvika surprised two-time Commonwealth Games medallist Kristy Gilmour of Scotland 21-17, 19-21, 21-16 to enter the last-eight stage of the BWF world tour event in Changzhou.
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