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Indian shuttler Anup Sridhar made it into the main draw of the Yonex French Super series at the Pierre de Coubertin Stadium in Paris.
The India notched up consecutive wins in the qualifying round and made it easily to the main draw as both his opponents retired midway. In the first match, Czech Tomas Kopriva retired at 1-1 and in the next Swede Henri Hurskainen withdrew after 27 minutes with the score reading of 21-19, 15-11 in Sridhar's favour.
The Indian will challenge top seed Chinese Lin Dan in the main draw. The other Indian Jayaram won his first match against French Mathieu Lo Ying Ping by 21-7, 21-15 in 21 minutes but lost to Christian Lind-Thomsen of Denmark by 24-26, 14-21 in a 42-minute battle.
