Four Indian shuttlers
in third round

Four Indian shuttlers moved into the third round of the men's singles event at the 17th Commonwealth Games in Manchester on Wednesday.

India No. 1 Pulella Gopichand had it easy against Curwin Cherubin of Barbados, winning 7-2, 7-0, 7-1; Sachin Ratti beat Ola Fagbemi of Nigeria 7-2, 7-0, 7-4; Abhinn Shyam Gupta defeated David Geddes of Northern Ireland 7-2, 7-1, 7-3 and Nikhil Kanetkar ousted Naseer Abdulla Ali Maldives 7-0, 7-1, 7-0.

In the next round Gopichand will face Bruce Topping of Northern Ireland; Sachin Ratti will take on Stuart Brehaut of Australia; Abhinn will face Graham Simpson of Scotland and Kanetkar faces Ian Coombs-Goodfellow of Jersey.

Earlier, India failed to make semi-finals of the mixed team event.

Results:
Men's Singles
Round of 128: Graeme Smith (Sco) bt Makhula Makhula (Bot) 3-0 (7-1 7-1 7-1), Issah Mohammed (Gha) bt Adam Nashwath (Mdv) 3-0 (7-3 7-3 7-1), Graham Simpson (Sco) bt Kevin Wood (Bar) 3-0 (7-0 7-0 7-1), Paul Le Tocq (Gue) bt Idrisse Mossagy (Moz) 3-0 (7-3 7-0 7-0)

Round of 64: Martyn Lewis (Wal) bt Kendrick Lee (Sin) 3-0 (7-1 7-4 7-0), Choong Hann Wong (Mas) bt Ben Noah Ayim (Gha) 3-0 (7-1 7-0 7-1), John Gordon (Nzl) bt Bradley Graham (Jam) 3-1 (7-1 6-7 7-1 7-1), Wajid Ali (Pak) bt Anil Seepaul (Tri) 3-0 (7-1 7-2 7-4), Pullela Gopi Chand (Ind) bt Curwin Cherubin (Bar) 3-0 (7-2 7-0 7-1), Bruce Topping (Nir) bt Georgie Cupidon (Sey) 3-0 (7-4 7-2 7-5), Muhammad Hafiz Hashim (Mas) bt Oreeditse Thela (Bot) 3-0 (7-0 7-0 7-1), Ryan Holder (Bar) bt Kerwyn Pantin (Tri) 3-0 (7-4 7-3 7-2), Stuart Brehaut (Aus) bt Simon Gaines (Iom) 3-0 (7-1 7-4 8-6), Sachin Ratti (Ind) bt Ola Fagbemi (Ngr) 3-0 (7-2 7-0 7-4), Bruce Flockhart (Sco) bt Alexander Haddad (Jam) 3-0 (7-0 7-0 7-2), Mark Constable (Eng) bt Douglas Besley-Clark (Fai) 3-0 (7-0 7-0 7-0), Stephan Wojcikiewicz (Can) bt Dotun Akinsanya (Ngr) 3-0 (7-1 7-1 7-0), Abhinn Shyam Gupta (Ind) bt David Geddes (Nir) 3-0 (7-2 7-1 7-3), Nick Hall (Nzl) bt Denis Constantin (Mri) 3-0 (7-5 7-2 7-2), Issah Mohammed (Gha) bt Ibraimo Issu Mussagy (Moz) 3-0 (7-5 7-0 7-1), Colin Haughton (Eng) bt Dimbo Odejoke (Ngr) 3-0 (7-1 7-4 7-3), Stephan Beeharry (Mri) bt Ashley Brehaut (Aus) 3-0 (7-5 8-7 8-7), Darron Charles (Tri) bt Fred Gituku (Ken) 3-2 (7-4 5-7 7-4 4-7 8-7), Graeme Smith (Sco) bt Zulkifli Bin Salleh (Bru) 3-1 (8-6 7-2 7-8 7-3), Richard Vaughan (Wal) bt Eli Mambwe (Zam) 3-0 (7-2 7-0 7-2), Ronald Susilo (Sin) bt Mmoloki Motlhala (Bot) 3-0 (7-1 7-0 7-0), Graham Simpson (Sco) bt Charles Pyne (Jam) 3-2 (7-8 7-1 7-5 3-7 7-4), Awang Amran Kambar (Bru) bt Christopher Eynon (Fai) 3-0 (7-0 7-0 7-0), Miluka Karunaratne (Sri) bt Paul Le Tocq (Gue) 3-0 (7-1 8-7 7-4), Tsuen Seng Lee (Mas) bt Liam Ingram (Wal) 3-0 (7-2 7-0 7-2), Robert Milroy (Can) bt Ochoni Ddicha (Ngr) 3-1 (5-7 7-2 7-0 7-4), Geoff Bellingham (Nzl) bt Nicholas Jumaye (Sey) 3-0 (7-3 7-0 7-4), Nikhil Kanetkar (Ind) bt Naseer Abdulla Ali (Mdv) 3-0 (7-0 7-1 7-0), Jannik Jonsson (Iom) bt Martin Awusu Adu (Gha) 3-1 (3-7 7-5 7-5 7-4), Ian Coombs-Goodfellow (Jer) bt Glendon Thomas (Tri) 3-0 (7-2 7-2 7-4), Hyder Aboobakar (Mri) bt Andre Padmore (Bar) 3-0 (7-0 7-2 7-5)