Paris: Indian shuttlers B Sai Praneeth, Anand Pawar and K Srikanth reached the main draw of the French Super Series after notching up contrasting victories in the men's singles qualifiers on Tuesday.
Seeded fourth in the qualifiers, Praneeth registered a 21-14, 21-15 win over Finland's Ville Lang in the opening round and then prevailed over local player Lucas Corvee 21-12, 21-15 in the second round.
Anand Pawar, however, had a difficult match early on when he had to toil hard to get it across local shuttler Brice Leverdez 21-17, 23-21 in the first match and then dig deep to eke out a thrilling 16-21, 21-11 21-19 win over Joachim Persson of Denmark in the next round.
Srikanth too defeated Scot Evans 21-19, 21-15 first and then notched up a hard-fought victory over compatriot Sourabh Varma 18-21, 21-18, 21-11 to seal his place in the main draw.
Sourabh had won 21-8, 21-12 against Matthieu Lo Ying in the opening round. Indian young shuttler H S Prannoy could not get across the first round after his gallant fight ended with a 21-13, 18-21, 14-21 loss to Lucas Corvee in the first round.
In the men's doubles category, Indian pair of Manu Attri and Sumeeth Reddy B suffered a 7-21, 8-21 loss to Denmark's Mads Conrad-Petersen and Mads Pieler Kolding in the qualifiers.
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