Asian Games gold medallist Abhay Singh and reigning nationwide champion Velavan Senthilkumar bowed out of the New Zealand Open squash match in their second spherical matches on Thursday.
Senthil Kumar went right down to World No. 3 Kiwi Paul Coll 7-11, 1-11, 2-11, whereas Abhay misplaced to world No. 14 Baptiste Masotti of France 8-11, 5-11, 1-11.
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The Indian, a world No. 63, had earlier overwhelmed world No. 46 Shahjahan Khan 3-2 in the opening spherical.
Senthil gave a struggle to Coll in the fist recreation however light shortly in the remaining two video games, a sample world No. 70 Abhay adopted towards the Frenchman.
In his first spherical match, Abhay, who completed as runner-as much as Senthilkumar on the Nationals final month, had scored a 3-2 victory over world No. 54 Andrew Douglas.
Meanwhile, world No. 75 Akanksha Salunkhe misplaced to Malaysian world No. 51 Aira Azman 3-0 in the opening spherical of the New Zealand Open for girls.
