Kidambi Srikanth, Parupalli Kashyap knocked out of males’s singles in All England

India’s ace shuttlers Kidambi Srikanth and Parupalli Kashyap suffered early exits within the prestigious All England Badminton Championships, dropping their respective opening spherical males’s singles matches right here on Wednesday.
However, the Indian duo of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy obtained the higher of Thailand’s Benyapa Aimsaard and Nuntakarn Aimsaard in straight video games, 21-14 21-12, in a ladies’s doubles match that lasted half-hour.
Seeded eight, Srikanth misplaced to Ireland’s unseeded participant Nguyen Nhat 11-21 21-15 12-21 on the opening day of the event.
His match lasted precisely an hour because the participant from Ireland got here again strongly after dropping the second sport in opposition to the Indian.
Commonwealth Games gold medallist Kashyap went down in straight video games to prime seeded Japanese Kento Momota 13-21 2-22 in 42 minutes.