Taipei: Ace Indian shuttler H S Prannoy waltzed into the quarterfinals of the Taipei Open after recording a comfortable straight-game win over Indonesia's Tommy Sugiarto here on Thursday.
Prannoy, the country's top-ranked men's singles player, took just 36 minutes to dispatch former World Championship bronze medallist Sugiarto 21-9, 21-17 in the BWF World Tour Super 300 tournament.
The world No. 9 will play Hong Kong's fifth seed Angus Ng Ka Long in the last-eight stage.
Keralite Prannoy, who claimed the Malaysia Masters Super 300 title last month, has enjoyed a good run recently. Last week, he put up an impressive display at the Indonesia Open, a Super 1000 tournament, making it to the semifinals, where he lost to world No. 1 and eventual winner Viktor Axelsen of Denmark.
Prannoy is the lone Indian remaining in the competition.
Former Commonwealth Games medallist Parupalli Kashyap went down 16-21, 17-21 to local favourite Su Li Yang in the pre-quarterfinals.
It was also the end of the road for the mixed doubles pair of Sikki Reddy and Rohan Kapoor.
The Indian duo was handed a 13-21, 18-21 defeat by Taipei's Chiu Hsiang Chieh and Lin Xiao Min.
Tanya Kamath also didn't pose any real threat as she went down 11-21, 6-21 to World Championship and Olympic silver medallist Tai Tzu-ying.
