Prannoy in a sentence

After HS Prannoy made it to the second round, Lakshya Sen will take on Chou Tien Chen.

After losing the closely fought opening game, Prannoy took the second game and was trailing 2-7 in the decider before scripting a comeback to clinch the match in one hour and 15 minutes.

Indian badminton ace HS Prannoy made an early exit from the Korea Open Super 500 tournament as he lost his second round match to Lee Cheuk Yiu of Hong Kong here on Thursday.

India’s No. 1 shuttler H.S. Prannoy on Friday bowed out of the Malaysia Open Super 1000 badminton tournament after suffering a quarterfinal loss at the hands of Kodai Naraoka of Japan.

In what was a glorious effort at 31 playing in Axelsen’s den, Prannoy will leave Copenhagen with a bold bronze anyway.

Perhaps, HS Prannoy reckoned he had done enough of the fighting back when he reached 19-14 in the decider after hammering down two successive power-smashes from the backcourt.

Soon the 21-year-old moved to nine game points, wasting three of them before Prannoy went to the net again.

The 30-year-old Prannoy, who has been in sensational form in Malaysia, defeated world No.6, Chou Tien Chen, reigning All-England champion Li Shi Feng and Madrid Masters 2023 winner Kenta Nishimoto en route to the semis.

Wang, though, offered a tidy little workout, in the course of his ‘frenzied rallies’ style of play, with plenty of errors besmirching a good plan to catch Prannoy on his backhand lunge to the forecourt corner.

Among other Indian men’s singles shuttlers, Sameer Verma will take on Thailand’s Kantaphon Wangcharoen while HS Prannoy will be up against Kanta Tsuneyama of Japan in the opening round.

The Indian men’s team, which won the bronze medal in Hyderabad in 2016, will be spearheaded by Praneeth with former World No.1 Kidambi Srikanth, HS Prannoy, Subhankar Dey and Lakshya Sen in the squad.

However, the unseeded Prannoy came back strongly taking the second game 21-11.

Now the fight has gone a step further with Swamy asking for a lookout notice against Prannoy Roy, because Swamy believes that Roy could escape to South Africa.

An email sent to Prannoy Roy did not elicit any response.

Any surprise wins at this level can catapult careers into the next gear, while Prannoy, Sai Praneeth and Nehwal will relish the opportunity to prop up their confidence.

HS Prannoy goes first against China's Chen Long, who immediately takes lead over the Indian shuttler.

HS Prannoy is off to a good start in the first game of the match.

India had a mixed Wednesday at the ongoing badminton World Championships in Nanjing, China as the likes of HS Prannoy, Sameer Verma, and top doubles pairs of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty, Ashwini Ponnappa/Sikki Reddy were knocked out.

In the individual event which begins from August 22, Srikanth and Prannoy would be India’s best medal bets in men’s singles.

Jakarta: Indian Badminton player HS Prannoy outshined legendary Chinese player Lin Dan in the first round of the men’s singles event of Indonesia Open here on Tuesday.