Macau: Two-time defending champion P V&nbsp;Sindhu took another step towards retaining her women's singles&nbsp;title by reaching the quarterfinals of the USD 120,000 Macau&nbsp;Open Grand Prix Gold here today.
Two-time bronze medallist at World Championship, Sindhu,&nbsp;seeded fifth, defeated Indonesia's Lindaweni Fanetri 21-17&nbsp;21-18 in a women's singles match that lasted 46 minutes. The&nbsp;World No. 12 will next take on China's Chen Yufei.
In the men's singles, seventh seed H S Prannoy saw off&nbsp;China's Qiao Bin 12-21 21-11 21-19 in a gruelling match that&nbsp;lasted an hour and five minutes. He will next play 16th seed&nbsp;Ihsan Maulana Mustofa of Indonesia.
B Sai Praneeth, seeded 15th, defeated Indonesia's Andre&nbsp;Kurniawan Tedjono 21-15 21-6 in another match and will face&nbsp;Malaysia's Goh Soon Huat at the Tap Seac Multisport Pavilion&nbsp;Macau tomorrow.
Prannoy showed tremendous tenacity as he bounced back&nbsp;from a game down to win the match.
Qiao dominated the opening game, jumping to 11-3 from 4-3&nbsp;and continuing his rampaging run after the interval as he&nbsp;moved in giant steps to pocket the game without much ado.&nbsp;
Jolted by the first game loss, Prannoy scripted a&nbsp;brilliant turnover in the second game where he led from the&nbsp;start and slowly crafted his return to the match by closing&nbsp;the second game.&nbsp;
He continued his domination early on in the decider,&nbsp;opening up a 6-0 lead but Qiao fought back to take a&nbsp;slender 11-10 advantage at the break. The Chinese inched ahead&nbsp;to a 14-12 lead but Prannoy never gave up and moved and neck&nbsp;and neck before breaking off at 17-17 to shut the door on&nbsp;Qiao.

Ace Indian shuttlers PV Sindhu, H S Prannoy and B Sai Praneeth advanced to the quarterfinals of the singles event of the Macau Open Grand Prix&nbsp;&nbsp;

Macau Open: PV Sindhu, HS Prannoy and Sai Praneeth enter quarterfinals

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