Shuttler Sourabh Verma secures spot in main draw of Hong Kong Open

Indian shuttler Sourabh Verma on vember 12 entered men's singles main draw of Hong Kong Open after winning both his qualifying matches. Sourabh defeated Thailand's Tangsak Saensomboonsuk 21-15, 21-19 and Lucas Claerbout of  France 21-19, 21-19 to make it to main draw of $ 400,000 tournament. first qualification match lasted for 45 minutes with Tangsak counter-attacking every time Sourabh took le. Sourabh, however, mand to stay one point ahe. At 8-8, Tangsak took le but Sourabh chased to get back on level terms and won game with a six-point margin. second match was closely fought. However, he played very attentively and went on to win game 21-19.

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Second match lasts for 47 minutes

second match against Lucas lasted for 47 minutes. Sourabh h to perform his best to emerge victorious. Sourabh will be playing his first-round men's singles match on Wednesday. or Indian players featuring in men's singles main event will start on Wednesday. World . 10 Kidambi Srikanth, B Sai Praneeth, Sameer Verma, H S Prany and Parupalli Kashyap will take part in competition. On or hand, Srikanth has a difficult opening encounter against World . 1 Kento Momota of Japan, and Sourabh's bror Sameer will play against Tzu Wei Wanf of Taipei.

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Indian shuttlers to open ir campaign in mixed doubles

 B Sai Praneeth too has a tough opening round encounter against third qualifier Shi Yu Qi of China, while Prany and Kashyap will take on China's Huang Yu Xiang and Kenta Nishimoto of Japan. Indian shuttlers will open ir campaign in mixed doubles event later on Tuesday. While pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa will face Thailand's Nipitphon Phuangphuapet and Savitree Amitrapai, and combination of Pranaav Jerry Chopra and N Sikki Reddy will face third qualifiers  Dechapol Puavaranukroh and Sapsiree Taerattanachai of Thailand.

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