AGENCY
EL MONTE (USA): Fourth seed Ajay Jayaram and Anand Pawar set up up an all-Indian quarterfinal in the US Open Grand Prix Gold badminton event here.
Other Indians who made the quarterfinals were the men’s doubles pairing of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy, and women’s doubles duo of S Poorvisha Ram and Meghana Jakkampudi.
Pawar defeated compatriot Pratul Joshi 21-10, 21-13 while Jayaram outplayed Pedro Martins of Portugal 21-11, 21-15. In the men’s doubles, second seeds Attri and Reddy dug deep to beat Japan’s Kenya Mitsuhashi and Yuta Watanabe 23-21, 21-13 in a match lasting 39 minutes. (PTI)