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Monday, Jun 16, 2025
The 29-year-old Saina, an Olympic bronze medallist, had finished runner-up in the tournament last year, losing to Chinese Taipei's Tai Tzu-Ying in the final.
World champion Sindhu, who made early exits in the last three tournaments at China, Korea and Denmark, beat Singapore's Yeo Jia Min 21-10 21-13 in 34 minutes to snap her recent run of early exits and enter the quarterfinals.
Kashyap defeated Daren 21-17, 11-21, 21-12 in a match that lasted almost an hour.
India's top shuttler Sindhu beat Xuerui 21-18, 21-12 in just 34 minutes to seal a place in the pre-quarterfinals.
Saina Nehwal's poor run of form continued as the Olympic bronze-medallist lost to local favourite Cai Yan Yan in straight games.
Currently ranked ninth in the world, Saina has been struggling for form throughout this year. She suffered first-round losses six times this year.
World Champion P V Sindhu made a positive start to her campaign but Saina Nehwal and Sameer Verma were ousted from the Hong Kong Open after suffering contrasting defeats in the opening round of the USD 400,000 event here on Wednesday.
Eighth seed Saina will now face either Spain's three-time World Champion and reigning Olympic champion Carolina Marin or China's Chen Yufei, seeded third.
Saina Nehwal had to toil hard and came back from a game down to quell the challenge of Hong Kong's Joy Xuan Deng 14-21, 21-18, 21-18.
Saina will face a tough test next when she faces three-time world champion Carolina Marin of Spain on Saturday.
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