Indian shuttlers HS Prannoy and Sameer Verma suffered contrasting defeats on the French Open Super 750 event as they crashed out of the boys’s singles occasion.
Thomas Cup winner Prannoy went down 19-21 22-20 19-21 to Lu Guang Xu of China within the pre-quarterfinals on Thursday night time, whereas Sameer went down 18-21 11-21 to Thailand’s Kunlavut Vitidsern. Kidambi Srikanth additionally bowed out of the event after shedding 21-19, 12-21, 19-21 to Rasmus Gemke of Denmark in a match that lasted one hour and quarter-hour.
Seventh-seeded Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty are the one surviving Indians within the event. The duo defeated Malaysian pair of Man Wei Chong and Kai Woon Tee 21-16, 21-14 within the spherical of 16 match and can tackle high seeds Takuro Hohei and Yugo Kobayashi of Japan within the quarterfinals.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
