PV Sindhu, a double Olympic medallist, did not defend her Swiss Open Super 300 badminton title as she was defeated by unseeded Putri Kusuma Wardani of Indonesia in an exciting three-game girls’s singles second-round match. Despite being seeded fourth and ranked ninth on this planet, Sindhu was surprised 15-21 21-12 18-21 by the thirty eighth ranked Wardani of their first-ever face-off on the worldwide stage on Thursday evening.
#SwissOpen2023#PV_Sindhu, after she misplaced #AllEngland2023 now she once more in Swiss..Will this outcome continues pic.twitter.com/Lq2pwxIgvg
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However, the second-seeded males’s pairing of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty stored India’s hopes alive by getting into the quarterfinals with a hard-fought 12-21 21-17 28-26 win over the Taiwanese pair of Fang-Chih Lee and Fang-Jen Lee. The world No. 6 Indian duo will face the Danish pair of Jeppe Bay and Lasse Molhede afterward Friday.
Meanwhile, world No. 9 and fifth seed H S Prannoy suffered a shock second-round exit after dropping in straight video games towards unseeded Christo Popov of France. Despite being the favorite, Prannoy failed to present any combat and misplaced 8-21 8-21 to bow out of the boys’s singles occasion.
Kidambi Srikanth was additionally knocked out on Thursday, dropping to Hong Kong’s Cheuk Yiu Lee in a hard-fought match. Although Srikanth is ranked twentieth on this planet, just one place behind his opponent, Lee stored his composure and emerged as a 22-20 21-17 winner within the singles pre-quarterfinal contest.
National champion Mithun Manjunath additionally bowed out within the second spherical, dropping 19-21 10-21 to Chia Hao Lee of Chinese Taipei. While the Indian gamers confronted disappointment in some matches, the efficiency of Rankireddy and Shetty presents some hope for the nation within the match.
