Odense [Denmark], October 17 (ANI): Indian shuttlers’ marketing campaign on the Denmark Open 2026 ended within the quarter-finals, with Treesa Jolly-Gayatri Gopichand and Tanvi Sharma struggling defeats in ladies’s doubles and girls’s singles on Friday, respectively.
Tanvi, the final Indian shuttler remaining within the event, went down 21-15, 21-13 to world No. 1 and prime seed An Se-young of the Republic of Korea in a match that lasted 38 minutes.
Earlier, the ladies’s doubles pair of Treesa and Gayatri misplaced 14-21, 21-17, 21-11 to Malaysian pair of Pearly Tan and Thinaah Muralitharan. Ranked 18th on the planet, Treesa-Gayatri made a powerful begin and held an 11-7 lead on the first interval earlier than comfortably taking the opening recreation, in keeping with Olympics.com.
The Malaysians, presently ranked fifth, initially trailed within the second recreation as nicely, with the Indian pair establishing a 14-11 benefit. However, Pearly and Thinaah fought again to stage the match. The Malaysians dominated the decider, denying the Indian pair an opportunity to stage an upset.
The Malaysian duo had additionally knocked the Indian pair out within the quarter-finals of the Asian Games 2026 in Japan earlier this month.
Meanwhile, world No. 24 Tanvi started promisingly in her first assembly with reigning world and Olympic champion An Se-young however was unable to keep up the momentum because the Korean secured a straight-games victory.
Several of India’s main shuttlers, together with PV Sindhu, Unnati Hooda, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty, Lakshya Sen and Ayush Shetty, had exited the BWF Super 750 event within the opening spherical.
Kidambi Srikanth progressed to the second spherical of males’s singles earlier than shedding to reigning world champion Alex Lanier of France.
Indian shuttlers will subsequent compete on the French Open, scheduled to be held from October 20 to 25. (ANI)