World No. 9 Prannoy overcame the world No. 7 and the 2021 world champion, Singapore’s Loh Kean Yew, 21-18, 15-21, 21-19 in a 69-minute marathon in the round of 16 match.
In the women’s singles, the two former world champions and Olympic medalists battled it out for 44 minutes before, Sindhu lost the match 14-21, 14-21.
The 31-year-old had won the Malaysia Masters, his maiden World Tour title, in May.
World no 17 Sindhu, and fifth seed in the tournament, lost in straight games to world No. 12 Beiwen Zhang 12-21-17-21 .
Fifth seed PV Sindhu chalked out an easy straight game win over compatriot Aakarshi Kashyap in the Australian Open Badminton.
HS Prannoy, Kidambi Srikanth and Mithun Manjunath beat top-20 opponents for a place in the next round of the BWF Super 500 event.
Lakshya ,who won the Canada Open Super 500 earlier this month, jumped out to a 5-3 lead early on before closing to 11-7 at the break.
Sindhu, who has endured a poor season so far, failed to cross the first-round hurdle going down to Chinese Taipei’s Pai Yu Po 18-21, 21-10, 13-21
Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu and World no 9 HS Prannoy will lead the Indian challenge at Sudirman Cup to be played in Suzhou, China from May 14-21,
Lakshya Sen’s strong defence and relatively slower playing conditions, created problems for HS Prannoy, who needed to come up with something special to pack off his younger opponent.
