Sai Praneeth progresses to the third round of the Canada Open

Sai Praneeth moved into the third round

India’s Sai Praneeth continued his impressive recent run, after defeating Jan Frohlich of Czech Republic 21-14 21-16 in 28 minutes in the second round of the 2015 Canada Open on Wednesday.

Game 1 saw both players, win 3 out of the first 6 points to tie at 3-3. They reached a deadlock, once again, few points later at 5-5 and it was Sai, who first broke it and then won 4 points straight to go 9-5 up. Following that 4-point win, The Indian assumed control l of the game, not letting his Czech Republican opponent take any advantage of the contest, by maintaining a sizeable lead at all times, to eventually take the game 21-14.

In the second game, Frohlich got off to a quick start, racing off to a 4-1 lead and then building on that advantage by winning 6 out of the next 10 points to got 10-5 up. But Sai, stormed back into the contest, winning 5 points on the trot to make it 10-10 and then began to control of the match, first by winning 4 points consecutively to go 14-11 up and despite Frohlich making a minor comeback to go 16-15 up, Sai won 6 points on the trot to take the game 21-16 and with it, the match as well.

He will now face Niluka Karaunaratne of Sri Lanka in the third round.

Final Scoreline- Sai Praneeth(IND) beat Jan Frohlich(CZE) 21-14 21-16