Kidambi Srikanth misplaced to prime seed Kento Momota and crashed out of the second spherical however India’s combined doubles crew of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa entered the French Open Super 750 badminton match right here on Wednesday.
The Rio quarterfinalists performed their hearts out to tackle the Japanese and took a two-point lead on the finish of the decider, however misplaced 18-21 22-20 21-19 within the males’s singles second spherical of the 79-minute match. Went.
Srikanth had additionally misplaced to Momota on the Denmark Open final week, however he did higher right here and got here near beating the two-time world champion in the long run.
The world quantity 24 pair of Rankireddy and Ponnappa defeated Denmark’s Mathias Thierry and Mai Saro 21-19, 21-15 in 37 minutes.
They might subsequent face the second seeded Indonesian pair of Praveen Jordan and Melati Deva Octavianti.
Srikanth took a 4-0 lead however Momota leveled the rating. He once more went forward with an 8-5 lead and the Japanese noticed a slim 11-10 lead on the break.
After the break, Momota stored his nostril forward regardless of hitting Srikanth’s heel and drawing 18-18 at one level.
The second sport was an much more fascinating match as Momota exchanged the lead a number of instances earlier than taking an 11-9 benefit.
The Japanese had two sport factors however Srikanth made an excellent fightback and returned to the competition with 4 straight factors.
The decider began with equal depth as Srikanth took the lead 9-6 however Momota held an 11-10 lead on the break.
The Indian went on to guide 19-17 however some errors price him the match.
India’s doubles Olympic medalist PV Sindhu will compete with different Indians later within the day.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
