Birmingham: Indian ace Lakshya Sen crashed out of the All England Open Championships quarterfinals after dropping to Mark Caljouw of the Netherlands 17-21 21-16 17-21 right here on Friday. The match, which lasted 55 minutes, noticed the tip of Indian problem in males’s singles.
The girls’s doubles pairing of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy additionally bowed out of the match following their defeat in straight video games to Netherlands’ Selena Piek and Cheryl Seinen in the quarterfinals. The world quantity 30 Indian pairing went down 22-24 12-21 to Twenty fourth-ranked duo of Selena and Cheryl in 39 minutes.
Ashwini and Sikki had defeated thirteenth ranked duo of Bulgarian sisters Gabriela Stoeva and Stefani Stoeva 21-17 21-10 in simply 33 minutes in the second-round match on Thursday night time.
World quantity 10 males’s doubles pairing of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, seeded sixth, had crashed out of the occasion after dropping 16-21 21-11 17-21 to Denmark’s Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen in the second spherical.
It was their second consecutive defeat in opposition to the world quantity 13 mix, having misplaced to them at Swiss Open earlier this month.
In the lads’s singles, Sameer Verma too suffered a second successive loss to 3rd seed Anders Antonsen of Denmark, happening 22-20 21-10 in the second spherical. The combined pairing of Dhruv Kapila and Meghana Jakkampudi additionally bowed out after dropping 19-21 8-21 to Niclas Nohr and Amalie Magelund of Denmark.
Caljouw, who had defeated Sen as soon as earlier than, claimed the primary set 21-17 in 17 minutes. Sen, 19, bounced again in the second recreation, opening up a lead of 11-6 and later sealing it 21-16 to remain alive in the competition.
The world No. 36 Caljouw, nevertheless, received the final recreation 21-17 to clinch the match. Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu will play her quarterfinal match in opposition to Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi in a while Friday.
