Thailand Open 2022 | Malvika Bansood and Ashmita Chaliha make it to the main draw

In 27 minutes, Ashmita Chaliha, a part of the Indian team that advanced to the Uber Cup 2022 quarter-finals last week, defeated Jennie Gai of the United States 21-16, 21-18. In the main round of the BWF Super Series  500 event, the world No. 65 shuttler will meet Thailand's world No. 8 Ratchanok Intanon.

After surviving their first qualifying matches, all of the Indian men's singles players in contention on Tuesday lost their second qualifying matches.  In the first qualifier, Priyanshu Rajawat, a member of India's Thomas Cup-winning squad and current world No. 81, defeated former junior world No. 1 Christo Popov of France 21-16, 21-17, but fell to Li Shi Feng of China 21-10, 22-24, 21-12.

Kiran George, the Odisha Open winner, and Subhankar Dey, the 65th-ranked player, were both ousted in the same way. In the departure of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, India's best doubles combination, MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila, lost their round-of-32 match to Lee Jhe-Huei and Yang Po-Hsuan of Chinese Taipei 21-12, 19-21, 21-19 in 57 minutes.

PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal, Kidambi Srikanth, HS Prannoy, and B Sai Praneeth are among the top Indian badminton players. Meanwhile, Lakshya Sen and the doubles team of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have withdrawn from the Thailand tournament.