India’s defending champion Lakshya Sen misplaced to Singapore’s Loh Kean Yew within the males’s singles ultimate of the Dutch Open 2021 right here on Sunday.
World quantity 25 and match high seed Sen misplaced to forty first ranked U12-21 16-21 in a ultimate that lasted 36 minutes.
En path to the ultimate, he defeated Canada’s Xiaodong Sheng, Portugal’s Bernardo Attilano, Singapore’s Jia Heng Teh and Belgium’s Julian Caraggi within the first spherical.
The 20-year-old Indian had gained the lads’s singles title on the 2019 version of the Dutch Open and was the highest seed this yr.
The 2020 version of the badminton match was canceled as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.
In males’s singles, different Indians, together with Ajay Jayaram, Cyril Verma and Rahul Chittboina, misplaced within the opening spherical of the match that started on Wednesday.
Ukraine’s worldwide champ Priyanshu Rajawat, who got here by means of the qualifiers, additionally suffered a primary spherical defeat, whereas Aryaman Tandon couldn’t progress past the qualifying spherical.
In ladies’s singles, Akanksha Kashyap was one of the best Indian participant, reaching the semi-finals earlier than shedding to high seed Abigail Holden of England within the final 4 21-17, 21-9.
Ira Sharma went down 19-21 23-21 15-21 to Vivian Sandorhaji of Hungary within the quarterfinals after defeating compatriot Ananya Praveen within the spherical of 16.
Samia Imad Farooqui, amongst others, additionally misplaced within the spherical of 16, whereas Keura Moppati’s marketing campaign ended within the first spherical of the primary draw.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
