<p class="title">India's Kidambi Srikanth made it to the men's singles quarterfinal but an erratic PV Sindhu went down in straight games in women's singles competition at the $750,000 Malaysia Open here Thursday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Eighth seeded Srikanth, who had reached the finals of a BWF World Tour event after 17 months at the India Open last week, defeated Thailand's Khosit Phetpradab 21-11, 21-15 in little over half an hour to set up a meeting with Olympic champion and fourth seed Chen Long of China.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The 26-year-old is now the lone Indian survivor in the BWF World Tour Super 750 tournament.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Fifth seed Sindhu blew a 13-10 advantage in the opening game to go down rather meekly 18-21, 7-21 to world No 10 Sung Ji Hyun for her third straight defeat to the Korean. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Mixed doubles pair of Pranaav Jerry Chopra and N Sikki Reddy lost 21-15, 17-21, 13-21 to local combination of Tan Kian Meng and Lai Pei Jing of Malaysia India to bow out.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Srikanth opened up a 6-2 lead early on and then jumped to a 14-6 advantage. The Indian continued to dominate the proceedings to pocket the opening game.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Nothing changed in the second with Srikanth again marching ahead early and holding his fort to comfortably shut out the match.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the women's singles match, after some good rallies, Sindhu enjoyed a three-point lead at 8-5 but Sung Ji Hyun drew level with a cross court smash. The Indian again managed to held a 11-9 lead after the Korean hit wide.</p>.<p class="bodytext">After the interval, Sung Ji erased the deficit and grabbed a 16-14 lead after Sindhu miscued two shots.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A backhand aimed at the body helped Sung Ji to move up to 19-16. Sindhu then misjudged the shuttle twice at the backline to hand over the opening game to her rival.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sung Ji raced to a 5-0 lead early on before moving to 10-5. A precise down-the-line return helped her to grab a 11-6 advantage at the break. It was a one-way traffic after the breather as the Korean took 10 of the next 11 points as Sindhu made some uncharacteristic mistakes.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Eventually two unforced errors from the Indian helped Sung Ji seal the quarterfinals spot.</p>
<p class="title">India's Kidambi Srikanth made it to the men's singles quarterfinal but an erratic PV Sindhu went down in straight games in women's singles competition at the $750,000 Malaysia Open here Thursday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Eighth seeded Srikanth, who had reached the finals of a BWF World Tour event after 17 months at the India Open last week, defeated Thailand's Khosit Phetpradab 21-11, 21-15 in little over half an hour to set up a meeting with Olympic champion and fourth seed Chen Long of China.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The 26-year-old is now the lone Indian survivor in the BWF World Tour Super 750 tournament.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Fifth seed Sindhu blew a 13-10 advantage in the opening game to go down rather meekly 18-21, 7-21 to world No 10 Sung Ji Hyun for her third straight defeat to the Korean. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Mixed doubles pair of Pranaav Jerry Chopra and N Sikki Reddy lost 21-15, 17-21, 13-21 to local combination of Tan Kian Meng and Lai Pei Jing of Malaysia India to bow out.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Srikanth opened up a 6-2 lead early on and then jumped to a 14-6 advantage. The Indian continued to dominate the proceedings to pocket the opening game.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Nothing changed in the second with Srikanth again marching ahead early and holding his fort to comfortably shut out the match.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the women's singles match, after some good rallies, Sindhu enjoyed a three-point lead at 8-5 but Sung Ji Hyun drew level with a cross court smash. The Indian again managed to held a 11-9 lead after the Korean hit wide.</p>.<p class="bodytext">After the interval, Sung Ji erased the deficit and grabbed a 16-14 lead after Sindhu miscued two shots.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A backhand aimed at the body helped Sung Ji to move up to 19-16. Sindhu then misjudged the shuttle twice at the backline to hand over the opening game to her rival.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sung Ji raced to a 5-0 lead early on before moving to 10-5. A precise down-the-line return helped her to grab a 11-6 advantage at the break. It was a one-way traffic after the breather as the Korean took 10 of the next 11 points as Sindhu made some uncharacteristic mistakes.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Eventually two unforced errors from the Indian helped Sung Ji seal the quarterfinals spot.</p>