Double Olympic medalists PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth crashed out of the Indonesia Masters Super 750 badminton match after dropping straight video games within the girls’s and males’s singles semi-finals right here on Saturday to wrap up the Indian marketing campaign.
Sindhu misplaced to prime seed Akane Yamaguchi of Japan whereas Srikanth misplaced to 3rd seed Anders Antonsen of Denmark. Even although Sindhu had a greater file of 12-7 towards the Japanese shuttler going right into a tie, profitable each the conferences this 12 months, the Indian was no match for her opponent, dropping 13-219- 21 one-sided. In a duel that lasted simply 32 minutes.
Sindhu, seeded third, was not at her greatest and was trailing her Japanese rival from the beginning in each the video games. In the second recreation, Sindhu briefly held the lead earlier than Yamaguchi dominated her opponent to show the problem in her favor.
The Japanese will now tackle the winner of the second semi-final between fourth seed An Seyong and Thailand’s Fittayaporn Chaiwan. Srikanth, who defeated compatriot HS Prannoy within the quarterfinals, went down 14-21, 9-21 to Antonsen within the males’s singles semi-final in 41 minutes.
The former world primary Indian initially managed to degree Antonsen 3-3, 4-4, 5-5 after which fell behind. Srikanth made one other nice restoration within the first recreation, narrowing the hole to 12-11, however finally misplaced steam.
In the second recreation too, the 2 have been tied at 4-4 however the Danes drew eight straight factors to degree 12-4. The Indian couldn’t get better from there whereas Antonsen by no means let down his guard to win the second recreation and the match.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
