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Patna : World No 19 B Sai Praneeth, India, beat World No 41 Subhankar Dey, India, in the 2nd round of Toyota Thailand Open, an HSBC BWF World Tour Super 500 tournament, at Bangkok, Thailand, to advance to quarter-finals of the tournament on August 1, 2019.
Praneeth, who had reached semi-finals of Japan Open last week, beat Dey 21-18, 21-19 in 42 minutes in the second round. He will square up against World No 16 & 7th seed Kanta Tsuneyama, Japan, in the QFs on August 2, 2019. Praneeth leads Dey 2-0 Head to Head.
All other Indian shuttlers including Kidambi Srikanth, H S Prannoy, Parupalli Kashyap, and Saina Nehwal lost in the second round on August 1, 2019.