Hong Kong, September 10 (ANI): India’s two-time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu’s poor season continued as she bowed out of the continuing Hong Kong Open badminton event within the opening spherical on Wednesday.
Competing on the Hong Kong Coliseum, Sindhu, the world quantity 14th, secured the opening recreation, however misplaced the match to world No. 27 Line Christophersen of Denmark by 15-21, 21-16, 21-19, as per Olympics.com.
This was Sindhu’s first loss in six matches in opposition to Line and her sixth exit within the first spherical this yr on the BWF World Tour, highlighting how poor the run has been.
In different girls’s singles match, Anupama Upadhyaya was additionally eradicated by fourth-seeded Japanese Tomoka Miyazaki by 21-17, 20-22, 21-14.
Coming to the lads’s singles competiton, the top-ranked singles participant for India, Lakshya Sen, secured a well-fought win over Chinese Taipei’s Olympian Wang Tzu-wei by 22-20, 16-21, 21-15 in an hour and 13 minutes.
Sen was extraordinarily calm in a carefully fought first recreation within the tie-break earlier than he misplaced the second recreation, however within the decider, he had a wholesome lead which helped him win.
Also, his singles’ compatriots HS Prannoy and Kiran George additionally superior to the second spherical following wins in straight video games.
The world quantity 34 and former World Championships medalist Prannoy surprised the 14th-ranked Chinese Lu Guangzu, whereas George outclassed Singapore’s Jason Teh. Prannoy’s subsequent spherical assembly might be in opposition to Lakshya, an thrilling all-India conflict.
Ayush Shetty, who’s the one Indian to safe a BWF World Tour title this yr, the US Open in June, got here from being one recreation down to achieve the subsequent spherical with a 15-21, 21-19, 21-13 win over Chinese Taipei’s Su Li-yang.
India’s sole girls’s doubles entry, Rutaparna Panda and Swetaparna Panda, saved their run going with a 21-17, 21-9 win in opposition to native stars Oi Ki Vanessa Pang and Sum Yau Wong.
In the combined doubles competitors, the pairing of Dhruv Kapila/Tanisha Crasto was ousted within the first spherical of the combined doubles after a 21-16, 21-11 defeat to Chinese Taipei’s Chen Cheng Kuan/Hsu Yin-Hui. (ANI)