Top seed Kidambi Srikanth entered the quarterfinals but a heartbreak was in store for P V Sindhu as she suffered a shocking loss to Nitchaon Jindapol of Thailand in the second round of the $120,000 Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament here on Thursday.
Srikanth dished out sweet revenge in the prequarterfinals today when he hammered Iskandar Zulkarnain Zainuddin 21-9 21-12. last Sunday, Sindhu was standing on the dais with her Malaysia Masters gold medal but on Thursday, the third seeded Indian bowed out with a 21-18, 24-26, 17-21 loss to World No. 27 Jindapol.
Defending champion Parupalli Kashyap also reached the quarterfinals after notching up a 21-19, 21-10 win over China's Zhu Siyuan. The Commonwealth Games champion will next take on China's Huang Yuxiang. Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa brushed aside compatriots Ningshi Block Hazarika and Harika Veludurthi 21-9, 21-10.