Ayush Shetty created the greatest victory of his young career on Thursday, stunning world No. 9 Kodai Naraoka to attack the quarterfinals of Hong Kong Open 2025.
This result was ensured by Shetty’s first quarterfinals of the BWF World Tour quarterfinals and also secured India at least one semifinal, while the young man has now prepared for the countryman Lakshya dream.
Meanwhile, the dream overcame the slow beginning to defeat HS prannoy at another all-Indian meeting. A 23-year-old man came from behind to publish a victory of 15-21, 21-18, 21-10 and for the first time in six months he reached the quarterfinal of the BWF Super 500 or higher.
The Battle of Sen-Pannoy has become a recurring function on the world tour, with Thursday’s competition identified the ninth meeting in the last three years. Lakeshya now leads their head to the head 6-3.
Prannoy, 33, looked sharp in the opening game and easily controlled the assembly when he escaped 21-15. He even transferred momentum to the second game and raced to 4-0 pillows. But a timely six -point explosion helped Lakeshya wrestling control.
From the age of 18-18, the younger shuttle holding its nerves-flowering breaking and two errors from Prannoy have given the game a game. In the referees, Prannoy started again well, but soon disintegrated under pressure and made mistakes at the crucial moments. Lakeshya earned recklessly and transformed the 9-13 deficit into a complete dominance. Prannoy’s mistakes from Prannoy Dal Lakshy’s 10 match points and he sealed the competition when his older grabbed again.
Lakeshya, who endured the season up and down with injuries and early exits, last semifinals on the prestigious All England in March. Its return to the deep end of the Super 500 event will be a welcome support before the wrapped closure of the season.
At the beginning of the day they reached the quarterfinals of Satwiksairaj Randireddy and Chirag Shetty on Thursday on Thursday’s quarterfinals of the Super 500 Badminton tournament. A couple of a pair of men in the world no. 9 will have another Malaysian Junaidi Arif and Roy King Yap.
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Published:
Saurabh Kumar
Published on:
September 11, 2025
