Kashyap reaches main draw of Korea Open

Commonwealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap notched up consecutive victories in the qualifiers to reach the main draw of the USD 600,000 Korea Super Series here today.
At the Seong-nam Indoor Stadium here, Kashyap played two gruelling contests and came out with flying colours in both occasion to set up a fight against Chinese fourth seed Tian Houwei in the opening round of men's singles tomorrow.
The Indian first eked out a 15-21 23-21 21-19 victory over local shuttler Ko Gyung Bo in an hour contest, before edging out Thailand's Pannawit Thongnuam 15-21 21-16 21-15 in the second match of the day that lasted 55 minutes.

The 30-year-old from Hyderabad, who is making his way back into the international circuit after a long injury lay-off, has played twice against Tian and had beaten the Chinese in his last encounter at 2014 French Open.
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Among others in women's singles, Rituparna Das will square off against Chinese Taipei's Chiang Mei Hui and Tanvi Lad will have an uphill task against seventh seed Nozomi Okuhara of Japan.

Unheralded Sri Krishna Priya Kudaravalli will face second seed Korean Sung Ji Hyun in her opening match.
In men's singles, K Srikanth will look to repeat the performance which got him the 2015 edition title.

"India Open is special as I have won the title in 2015. So there are good memories but it will be a new event with tougher competition. I am just confident of doing well after my recent outing in Germany and All England. I hope to win this title and seal my place at the World championship," said Srikanth, who has slipped to World No. 31 following an injury lay-off.
Also in fray will be Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold runners-up B Sai Praneeth, who will face a qualifier in the first match, while Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold champion Sameer Verma will lock horns with fourth-seeded Korean Son Wan Ho.

Ajay Jayaram will have to get past third seed and Olympic bronze-medallist Viktor Axelsen of Denmark.
Former Swiss Open champion H S Prannoy, who had hurt his knee at Basel this year, will face Malaysia's Zulfadli Zulkiffli in the first round.
In men's doubles, India's top pair of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy will face Japan's Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi, while seventh seeds Pranaav Jerry Chopra and N Sikki Reddy will face the Indonesian combo of Hafiz Faizal and Shela Devi Aulia.