Bwf Korea Open News

With victories in their respective men's and women's singles matches at the Korea Open 2022 on Friday, PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth progressed to the semi-finals. Sindhu defeated Thailand's Busanan Ongbamrungphan 21-10, 21-16 while Srikanth beat South Korea's Son Wan Ho 21-12, 18-21, 21-12.

Former world champion PV Sindhu started with a win to sail to the second round of the women's singles even with a win over Lauren Lam of the USA, at the Korea Open 2022, on Wednesday. World no.7 Sindhu beat her opponent, world no.70 Lam 21-15, 21-14, in just 34 minutes, in a lop-sided match.

Veteran India shuttler Parupalli Kashyap continued his winning run in the Korea Open BWF Super-500 Tournament in Incheon when he got the better of Malaysia’s Daren Liew 21-17, 11-21, 21-12 in the pre-quarterfinals. There were upsets in other matches as Viktor Axelsen and Anders Antonsen were ousted.

India's badminton chief coach Pullela Gopichand has denied reports claiming Park Tae Sang is in line to take up the women’s singles coaching job saying that there has been no movement on that front. PV Sindhu was knocked out early from the China Open and the Korea Open in two weeks successively.