Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu squandered a recreation result in go down towards second seed An Se Young of Korea. File.
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Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu squandered a recreation result in go down towards second seed An Se Young of Korea within the ladies’s singles quarterfinals of the Badminton Asia Championships in Dubai on Friday.
Sindhu, seeded eighth, pocked the primary recreation 21-18 however regarded utterly off color within the subsequent two video games which she misplaced 5-21 9-21 at hand Young a spot within the semifinals.
The different Indian hope, eight seed HS Prannoy too bowed out within the males’s singles quarterfinals after conceding his match halfway towards Kanta Tsuneyama of Japan.
Prannoy was trailing 11-21 9-13 when he retired on account of an damage.
Earlier within the day, qualifiers Rohan Kapoor and N Sikki Reddy battled laborious earlier than dropping a tricky three-game combined doubles contest towards Dejan Ferdinansyah and Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja of Indonesia.
The Indian pair fought for one hour and 5 minutes earlier than dropping the quarterfinal by 18-21 21-19 15-21 margin.
