Odense:&nbsp;On a fruitful day for the Indian&nbsp;shuttlers, Saina Nehwal and P V Sindhu stormed into the&nbsp;women's singles quarterfinals while two men's players also&nbsp;secured places in the last-eight stage of the Denmark Open&nbsp;Super Series Badminton event, here today.&nbsp;
London Olympics bronze medallist Saina made short work of&nbsp;Minatsu Mitani 21-12 21-10 in her second round contest, which&nbsp;lasted just 38 minutes.
Before Saina's win, two-time World Championships bronze&nbsp;medallist Sindhu took just 31 minutes to get the better of Ksenia Polikarpova of Russia 21-17 21-19 at the Odense Sports&nbsp;Park.
Since the top two women shuttlers from India are in&nbsp;either half of the draw, they could clash for the title if&nbsp;they win two more matches.&nbsp;
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Parupalli Kashyap and&nbsp;P V Sindhu&nbsp;
In the men's singles, Srikanth defeated Chinese Taipei's&nbsp;Jen Hao Hsu 21-12 21-15 in 45 minutes while Kashyap fought&nbsp;hard before prevailing over Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka of&nbsp;Indonesia 21-17 17-21 22-20 in a contest that lasted 69&nbsp;minutes.
World No. 10 Sindhu opened up a 4-0 lead in the first&nbsp;game and continued to widen the gap, eventually winning it 20-17.&nbsp;In the second game, Sindhu quickly broke away from a 2-2 tie to take a slight edge and then she kept on extending it to make it 19-15 at one stage. But a brief fight back from the Russian saw her closing the gap to 19-20 before Sindhu used all her experience to wrap it up in her favour.
In men's singles second round matches, Srikanth had a&nbsp;rather comfortable outing today, but Glasgow Commonwealth Games gold medallist Kashyap faced a stiff challenge from his&nbsp;Indonesian rival.
After a neck and neck battle till 13-13 in the opening&nbsp;game, Kashyap bagged four consecutive points to make it 17-13&nbsp;and then there was no looking back for the Indian.&nbsp;But the Indonesian shuttler came back strongly in the second game as he opened up a huge 7-1 lead.&nbsp;
Although Kashyap managed to reel off six points on a trot&nbsp;to catch his opponent, the Indonesian showed a lot of determination to keep the Indian at bay and take the match to&nbsp;the decider.
Third game was a closely-fought affair with both players&nbsp;refusing to spare an inch. The game swung from one end to other before the Indian held his nerves to earn two points&nbsp;from 20-20 to advance to the next stage.

Saina Nehwal and P V Sindhu&nbsp;stormed into the quarterfinal of women's singles, while Parupalli Kashyap and K Srikanth made the last-eight stage of men's singles after posting contrasting victories in the Denmark Open Super Series Badminton Premier

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