PV Sindhu and the men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty entered the quarterfinals of the Badminton Asia Championships while the rest of the Indians exited the tournament in Manila on Thursday.
Sindhu made short work of world No. 100 Yue Yann Jaslyn Hooi of Singapore 21-16, 21-16 and third seeded Satwik-Chirag defeated the Japanese duo of Akira Kogo and Taichi Saito 21-17, 21-15. However, K Srikanth lost 16-21, 21-17, 17-21 to Weng Hong Yang of China and Saina Nehwal faltered against Wang Zhi Yi of China 21-12, 7-21, 13-21.
