Washington [US], July 12 (ANI): Indian shuttler Parupalli Kashyap’s US Open 2023 badminton marketing campaign ended on Tuesday when he didn’t qualify for the primary draw after struggling an damage within the qualifiers at Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Earlier, the previous world No. 6 had defeated world No. 159 Rohan Midha of Canada 21-19, 21-17 in his first match of the qualifiers however he pulled out from the match in opposition to world No. 85 Koo Takahashi of Japan within the center as a consequence of his damage, as per Olympics.com.
Kashyap had misplaced the primary set in opposition to Midha 21-23 and was trailing 7-11 on the time of his withdrawal.
Meanwhile, 2022 World Junior Badminton Championships silver medallist Sankar Muthusamy has superior into the lads’s singles principal draw after profitable two qualifying rounds.
Muthusamy had defeated world No. 155 Davi Silva of Brazil within the first spherical with 21-17, 21-11.
Muthusamy then received higher of world No. 139 BR Sankeerth of Canada with a 21-11, 21-17 win to march into the primary draw.
Muthusamy will face world No. 32 Nhat Nguyen of Ireland in the primary draw of the BWF Super 300 occasion on Wednesday.
Krishna Prasad Garaga and Vishnuvardhan Goud Panjala, India’s solely problem in males’s doubles, crashed out within the spherical of 32. The Indian badminton gamers, ranked thirty seventh in doubles, misplaced to world No. 59 pair of Lin Yu Chieh and Su Li Wei of Chinese Taipei 21-14, 21-14. In girls’s doubles, Apeksha Nayak and Ramya Chickmenhalli Venkatesh, world No. 192, withdrew from the match earlier than their spherical of 32 match in opposition to Jeslyn Chow and Eliana Zhang of Canada. India’s prime badminton gamers, together with two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu and Commonwealth Games 2022 champion Lakshya Sen, will take the courtroom on Wednesday. (ANI)