Last version’s runner-up Kidambi Srikanth crashed out of the World Championships on Wednesday after a straight-game loss to world quantity 32 Zhao Jun Peng.
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Last version’s silver medalist and twelfth seed Srikanth Kidambi crashed out of the World Championships right here after struggling a straight recreation loss to Peng Zhao.
Very erratic match efficiency by Srikkanth
Scores: 9-21, 17-21 pic.twitter.com/IxIpcdQ0Td
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Kidambi misplaced 18-21, 17-21 in opposition to his Chinese counterpart in a match that lasted solely 34 minutes. The 29-year-old was poor within the opening recreation because it took solely 12 minutes for Zhao to take a 1-0 lead within the match. The Indian, already on the backfoot, tried to advance within the second recreation and take a 16-14 lead, however a number of unforced errors helped Zhao safe the win. In different matches, defending Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen superior to the boys’s singles pre-quarterfinals with a straight recreation win over Spain’s Luis Pealvar.
Young Indian badminton participant Sen took 72 minutes to finish the formalities and gained the second spherical 21-17, 21-10.
After trailing 3-4, ninth seed Sen took a six-point result in take a 13-7 lead. The Indian continued to steer earlier than ending the primary recreation comfortably.
World Championship bronze medalist Sen once more dominated the Spanish shuttler and gained the second recreation by an enormous margin. In the second recreation, the primary six factors had been shared between the 2 gamers, however the 21-year-old Indian rode on his higher recreation and went forward. Enjoying a large nine-point lead in a single leg of the second recreation, Sen took no time to finish the job. Earlier, the Indian males’s doubles pair of MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila had reached the pre-quarterfinals however Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy crashed out of the distinguished match within the second spherical.
Unseeded Arjun and Kapila defeated eighth seeded and former version bronze medalists Kim Astrup and Anders Skarup Rasmussen of Denmark 21-17, 21-16 of their second spherical match. He will now face Singapore’s Yong Kai Terry and Loh Keen Heen.
Ponnappa and Sikki, then again, had been defeated by high seeds Chen Qing Chen and Jia Yi Fan of China 21-15, 21-10 in 42 minutes.
The different girls’s doubles pair of Pooja Dandu and Sanjana Santosh additionally bowed out of the match after dropping 15-21, 7-21 to 3rd seeds Lee So Hee and Shin Seung Chan of Korea.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
