<p>Indian shuttlers PV Sindhu, Kidambi Srikanth and HS Prannoy registered similar come-from-behind victories in their respective events to advance to the quarter-finals of the Indonesia Masters Super 750 badminton tournament here on Thursday.</p>
<p>The highlight of the day was Prannoy&rsquo;s stunning 14-21, 21-19, 21-16 upset victory over Tokyo Olympics gold medallist Victor Axelsen in a tense one hour 11 minutes battle in the men&rsquo;s singles second round.</p>
<p>Down and out in the first game, Prannoy made a sensational recovery to first level the match and then eke out a memorable win against the World No. 2.</p>
<p><img title="Victor Axelsen" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2021/nov/HS-Panmoy-november-b_e.jpg" alt="Victor Axelsen" width="1280" height="720" /><strong><em>Victor Axelsen</em></strong></p>
<p>This was Prannoy&rsquo;s first victory in six attempts against Axelsen. With the win, the World &nbsp;No. 32 Indian shuttler becomes the first player to beat the Dane in full a match since March. In the women&rsquo;s singles, reining world champion Sindhu, who is seeded third, took 47 minutes to record a 17-21, 21-7, 21-12 win over Spain&rsquo;s Clara Azurmendi.</p>
<p>Playing against the World No. 47 Azurmendi for the first time, Sindhu went down in the first game before putting up a dominant performance in the next two games to register a brilliant victory.</p>
<h2>Sindhu faces Yigit in QF</h2>
<p>The two-time Olympic medallist will now lock horns with World No. 30 unseeded Turkish shuttler Neslihan Yigit in the quarter-finals. Sindhu has a 3-0 head-to-head record against the Turkish.</p>
<p>On the other hand, former World No. 1 Srikanth, dispatched Indonesia&rsquo;s sixth seed Jonatan Christie 13-21, 21-18, 21-15 in one hour two minutes in the men&rsquo;s singles second round fixture.</p>
<p>The unseeded Srikanth, who had claimed the Indonesia Open Super Series premier in 2017 at Jakarta, will take on Prannoy in the quarter-finals. However, it was curtains for young Lakshya Sen in the men&rsquo;s singles event and the mixed doubles pairing of Dhruv Kapila and N Sikki Reddy.</p>
<p>Sen, 20, who had reached the semi-finals at Hylo Open Super 500 and final of Dutch Open recently, went down 13-21, 19-21 to the top seed and two-time world champion Kento Momota of Japan in a 46-minute clash.</p>
<h2>Sikki-Kapila bow out</h2>
<p>Kapila and Sikki, on the other hand, lost a hard fought 15-21, 23-21, 18-21 battle to Thai duo of Supak Jomkoh and Supissara Paewsampran in the second round mixed doubles match. Women&rsquo;s doubles pair of Ashwini Ponappa and Reddy also crashed out of the event in the second round to third seeds Jongkolphan Kititharakul and Rawinda Prajongjai 18-21, 12-21.&nbsp;</p>
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