Birmingham [UK], March 18 (ANI): The Indian girls’s doubles duo of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly bowed out of the All England Open 2023 on Saturday after shedding to South Korean pair of Ha Na Baek and So Hee Lee.
As per Olympics.com, Gayatri and Jolly misplaced the semifinals 10-21, 10-21 in two straight video games.
The Indian pair had bowed out of the event on the identical stage over the last version as properly once they misplaced to China’s Shu Xian Zhang and Yu Zheng.
Gopichand and Jolly have been off to a poor begin within the semis and trailed behind their world quantity 20 opponents. They reduce their opposition’s lead halfway however some unforced errors price India the primary sport.
The duo couldn’t bounce again as Koreans stormed to a 11-2 lead. Despite taking part in lengthy rallies, Indian gamers couldn’t make a comeback and Korea received the match in 46 minutes.
On Friday, Gopichand and Jolly had downed China’s Li Wen Mei and Liu Xuan Xuan to achieve their second consecutive All England Open semi-final.
In their spherical of 16 match, they knocked out world quantity 9 Japanese pair of Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota to achieve the quarterfinals.
The Indian pair began their marketing campaign with a win over the seventh-seeded Thai pair of Jongkolphan Kititharakul and Rawinda Prajongjai by 21-18, 21-14.
The Indian males’s singles problem ended after final yr’s finalist Lakshya Sen and HS Prannoy, Kidambi Srikanth have been defeated early.
The males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty bowed out after struggling loss of their second-round matches.
In the ladies’s singles competitors, PV Sindhu, the two-time Olympic medalist was knocked out within the first spherical whereas Saina Nehwal pulled out of the event. (ANI)