Former champion Kidambi Srikanth crashed out of the Denmark Open Super 750 match after happening in straight video games to Loh Kean Yew of Singapore within the pre-quarterfinals right here on Thursday.
Srikanth misplaced 13-21, 15-21 to the seventh seeded opponent in a match that lasted 35 minutes.
Srikanth, the silver medalist of the 2021 World Championships, gained the title right here in 2017. He had a head-to-head document in opposition to Yu earlier than Thursday’s match.
In males’s doubles, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, seeded seventh within the match, reached the quarterfinals with a 21-14, 21-16 win over Indonesia’s Muhammad Shohibul Fikri and Maulana Bagas in a spherical of 16 match of 16 minutes.
The Indian pair will subsequent tackle the fourth-seeded Malaysian pair of Aaron Chia and Soh Wui Yik within the quarterfinals.
Women’s doubles pair of Tresa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand in addition to combined doubles pair of Ishaan Bhatnagar and Tanisha Crasto additionally crashed out of the match within the pre-quarterfinals.
Tresa and Gayatri went down 21-23, 13-21 to sixth seed Jongkolphan Kititharakul of Thailand, whereas Ishan and Tanisha misplaced 16-21, 10-21 to second seeded Japanese pair of Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino. needed to face.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
