The 2025 Malaysia Masters, a five-day badminton tournament at Kuala Lumpur’s Axiata Arena, began on May 20 and runs through May 25. Featuring top global shuttlers, the event saw strong performances from Indian players today, with several advancing to the next round.
It’s a total showcase of players competing in five events, including men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles, and mixed doubles. The men’s singles, conducting its 32nd round today, had three promising Indian players coming into the highlight.
It was a remarkable moment for India, and the energy was high with a great showcase of skills by the men’s players today.
Karunakaran vs T.C. Chou
Defeating No. 7 Chou Tien Chen of Taiwan, India’s Sathish Kumar Karunakaran blazed off with an impressive win in three-set games, including 21-13, 21-14. Tomorrow, May 22nd, he will face Christo Popov of France in round 16 of men’s singles.
Prannoy H. S. vs K. Nishimoto
Joining Karunakaran was HS Prannoy, defeating the no. 5, Kenta Nishimoto of Japan, with his grit and resilience, putting up a score of 19-21, 21-17, 21-16. Japan’s Yushi Tanaka is his next competition in tomorrow’s round 16 match.
A Shetty vs B. Yang
A rising star, Ayush Shetty, was successful in defeating Canada’s shuttler, Brian Yang, with a score of 20-22, 21-10, 21-8. For tomorrow’s match, he is set to face France’s Toma Junior Popov in round 16.
Kidambi vs G.Z. Lu
Kidambi Srikanth’s performance of 23-21, 13-21, 21-11 in the three sets today got him the win over China’s No. 6 Lu Guang Zu. Tomorrow he faces Ireland’s Nhat Nguyen in round 16.
India’s promising performance in mixed doubles
Besides India’s men’s players dominating the men’s singles category, an Indian pair qualified for the next round of the mixed doubles on Wednesday. India’s Kapila Dhruv and Crasto Tanisha defeated Indonesia’s Maulana A. and Jamil I. C. S. by a record of 2-1. Their scores followed as 21-18, 15-21, and 21-14.
For tomorrow’s match, they next face France’s Julien Maio and Lea Palermo in round 16 of the mixed doubles category of the 2025 Malaysia Masters.
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