Garaga-Roy enter second round at Korea Masters

ASAN (KOREA), AUG 4 (PTI): Unseeded Indian pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Pruthvi Krishnamurthy Roy stunned sixth seeded Thai pair of Chaloempon Charoenkitamorn and Worrapol Thongsa-Nga in straight games to enter men’s doubles second round at the Korea Masters Super 300 badminton tournament here on Tuesday.
The Indian duo took just 42 minutes to get the better of their fancied rivals 21-16 21-18. They will next play the winner of the match between Singapore’s Junsuke Kubo and Jia Hao Howin Wong and Korea’s Young Hyuk Kim and Tae Yang Shin. But the other Indian men’s doubles combination of Achutaditya Rao Doddavarapu and Arjun Reddy Pochana crashed out in the opening round, losing 3-21 10-21 against second pair of Sol Gyu Choi of Korea and Malaysia’s V Shem Goh. It was also curtains for Priya Konjengbam and Shruti Minshra from women’s doubles as they were shown the door.