Jun Hao falls to Hongyang once again, Letshanaa advances


Different strokes: K. Letshanaa will play either India’s P.V. Sindhu or Vietnam’s Nguyen Thuy Linh for a place in the quarter-finals.

PETALING JAYA: It was mixed fortunes for singles shuttlers K. Letshanaa and Leong Jun Hao in the Indonesian Masters when the former reached the second round but the latter suffered an early exit.

In the women’s singles, world No. 59 Letshanaa was pushed all the way by Ukraine’s world No. 51 Polina Buhrova but fought hard to prevail 21-23, 21-15, 21-19 in 68 minutes at the Istora Senayan in Jakarta yesterday.

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