India shuttler Lakshya Sen advanced to the men’s singles quarter-finals of the ongoing All England Open badminton tournament on Thursday.
Sen beat France’s Thomas Rouxel 21-18, 21-17.
Sen will now face either Nhat Nguyen from Ireland, who defeated Kidambi Srikanth on Wednesday, or Netherland’s Mark Caljouw.
On the other side, Prannoy lost 15-21, 14-21 loss to Japanese world No. 1 Kento Momota.
Prannoy’s contest lasted for 48 minutes.
Meanwhile, Rankireddy and Ponnappa lost 21-19, 21-9 to Japan’s Yuki Kaneko and Misaki Matsumoto in 35 minutes.
Rankireddy will be in action later in the day as he teams up with Chirag Shetty in the men’s doubles against Kim Astrup and Anders Rasmussen of Denmark. Reigning world champion P.V. Sindhu later takes on Line Christophersen in the women’s singles while Sameer Verma faces Denmark’s third seed Anders Antonsen.