Orleans Masters 2023 | Priyanshu Rajawat stuns top seed Kenta Nishimoto, wins in straight games

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BySportsCafe Desk, SportsCafe Editor

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Upcoming India shuttler Priyanshu Rajawat stunned world no.12 Japan's Kenta Nishimoto to enter the quarter-finals of the Orleans Masters on Thursday with a 21-8, 21-16 victory. This was Rajawat's first win over the 28-year-old Japanese, who had won the Spain Madrid Masters Super 300 last week.

Right from the start of the match, Rajawat maintained a solid lead over his opponent and played an attacking game throughout. As a result, he had a lead of 10-0 at one point in time, in the first game. The feature of the match was Rajawat's intent to score points.

Come the second game, Nishimoto had a better display, but could not tackle the high-on-confidence Indian, who is ranked 58th in the world. Unfortunately, Mithun Manjunath lost his fixture against Chi YJ of Chinese Taipei 21-15, 21-19. Even though the Indian is ranked higher than Chi, he could not beat the latter, and perished in the pre-quarters.

Also in action will be Tanya Hemanth in the women's singles, and will face N Nidaira of Japan. In the men's doubles, Dhruv Kapila and MR Arjun will face Japan's Mitsuhashi and Okamura. Two other doubles teams, Tanisha Crasto/Ashwini Ponnapa, and Tanisha/Sai Pratheek will play their pre-quarters as well. 

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