BWF US Open | Kashyap, Sameer, and Prannoy enter quarterfinals

Kashyap reached the quarterfinals after registering a win over Sri Lanka’s Niluka Karunaratne. The gold medalist of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games thrashed 16th seed Karunaratne in straight sets 21-19, 21-10. In the next round, he will face fifth seed, Sameer Verma.

Verma, who is coming back from a shoulder injury, faced stiff competition from Croatian’s Zvonimir Durkinjak in his first round. He defeated the Croatian player 21-19, 25-27, 21-15 and then overcame Brazil's Ygor Coelho 18-21 21-14 21-18 to set up the clash with Kashyap.

Even, Prannoy continued his winning momentum and brushed aside Ireland’s Joshua Magee 21-13, 21-17. In the next round, he registered a win against Netherland's Mark Caljouw 21-8, 14-21, 21-16. Prannoy will face eighth seed Kanta Tsuneyama of Japan in the quarterfinals.

In men’s doubles, third seeds Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy defeated the Indonesian duo of Hendra Tandjaya and Androw Yunanto in straight sets 21-16, 21-9.

However, other Indian players like Harsheel Dani, Sri Krishna Priya Kudaravalli, Rituparna Das failed to register wins and crashed out.

Harsheel’s journey was ended by Vietnam’s Tien Minh Nguyen who registered a 27-25, 21-9 win. In the other encounter, Sri Krishna lost 11-21, 10-21 to fifth seed Jang Mi Lee of Korea. Rituparna also failed to enter the next round as she suffered a 15-21, 20-22 loss to seventh seed Natalia Koch Rohde of Denmark.