Ashmita Chaliha. File.
| Photograph Credit score: The Hindu
Ashmita Chaliha moved to the ladies’s singles quarterfinals, rising because the nation’s lone surviving contender after the remainder of the Indian problem got here to an finish on the Malaysia Masters Tremendous 500 event right here on Thursday (Might 21, 2026).
Ashmita registered a cushty 21-13, 21-16 victory over Malaysia’s Goh Jin Wei within the pre-quarterfinals, wrapping up the competition in beneath half-hour with a composed all-round show.
She is going to subsequent face eighth seed Line Højmark Kjaersfeldt of Denmark within the last-eight stage.
Kjaersfeldt superior after defeating India’s Malvika Bansod, who squandered a one-game benefit to go down 21-16, 8-21, 15-21 in a 59-minute battle.
In one other girls’s singles conflict, reigning Thailand Masters champion Devika Sihag was outclassed by prime seed Chen Yufei of China, who sealed a 21-16, 21-13 win in 36 minutes.
India’s combined doubles pair of Sathwik Kanapuram and Radhika Sharma additionally bowed out after a hard-fought 12-21, 25-27 defeat to the American duo of Presley Smith and Jennie Gai.
In males’s doubles, the Indian mixture of Hariharan Amsakarunan and MR Arjun exited following a 14-21, 15-21 loss to China’s Hu Ke Yuan and Lin Xiang Yi.
India had endured a disappointing outing on Wednesday as effectively, with the likes of Lakshya Sen and HS Prannoy crashing out of the event.
Revealed – Might 22, 2026 04:49 am IST
