Indian shuttlers had a field day in the KLRC Bulgarian Grand Prix in Sofia. Aditi Mutatkar, in the women's singles, Rupesh Kumar and Sanave Thomas, in the men's doubles, and the mixed doubles pair of V Diju and Jwala Gutta entered the quarter-finals on Thursday.
Mutatkar defeated Olga Golovanova of Russia 21-18, 21-6 to reach the last 16 stage even as Shruti Kurian lost to Russia's Anastasia Proopenko 11-21, 19-21 in the women's singles second round.
Kumar and Thomas got a walkover against Tichomir Kirov and Konstantin Kostadinov of Bulgaria in the men's doubles while in mixed doubles, Diju and Gutta overcame the French pair of Baptiste Careme and Laura Choinet 21-13, 18-21, 21-12.
In the men's singles, Abhimanyu Singh defeated Sune Gavnholt of Denmark 21-18, 13-21, 21-18 and P Kashyap beat the Czech Republic's Tomas Kopriva 21-14, 21-18 to reach the pre-quarter-finals.
Kurian later teamed with Gutta to breeze past the French pair of Elisa Chanteur and Choinet 21-11, 21-11 in women's doubles.
