BWF World C’ships: Srikanth loses in second spherical; Lakshya sails into pre-quarters
Last version’s runner-up Kidambi Srikanth on Wednesday crashed out of the World Championships after a straight-game defeat to world quantity 32 Zhao Jun Peng.
#Badminton World Championship
Silver medalist from the final version and twelfth seed right here, Srikanth Kidambi LOST to Peng Zhao 🇨🇳 in straight video games to crash out of the world championships.
Pretty erratic match show from Srikanth
Score: 9-21, 17-21 pic.twitter.com/IxIpcdQ0Td
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Kidambi went down in opposition to his Chinese counterpart 18-21, 17-21 in a match lasting solely 34 minutes. The 29-year-old was out of types within the opening sport because it took solely 12 minutes for Zhao to take a 1-0 lead within the match. The Indian, already on the again foot, tried to up the ante within the second sport and led 16-14 however too many unforced errors helped Zhao safe the victory. In different matches, reigning Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen sailed into the boys’s singles pre-quarterfinals with a straight sport win over Spain’s Luis Penalver.
The younger Indian badminton ace Sen gained his second spherical contest 21-17 21-10, taking 72 minutes to finish the formality.
After trailing 3-4, the ninth seeded Sen grabbed a six-point result in be 13-7. The Indian continued to remain forward earlier than comfortably wrapping up the primary sport.
Sen, a world championship bronze medallist, then maintained his stranglehold over the Spanish shuttler and gained the second sport by an even bigger margin. In the second sport, the primary six factors had been shared between the 2 gamers, however the 21-year-old Indian pulled forward driving on his superior play. Enjoying a large nine-point lead at one stage of the second sport, it was solely a matter of time earlier than Sen accomplished the job. Earlier, the Indian males’s doubles pair of M R Arjun and Dhruv Kapila moved to the pre-quarterfinals however Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy made a second spherical exit from the celebrated event.
The unseeded Arjun and Kapila upstaged eighth seeds and final version’s bronze medallists Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen of Denmark 21-17 21-16 of their second spherical match. They will face Hee Yong Kai Terry and Loh Kean Hean of Singapore subsequent.
Ponnappa and Sikki, however, had been handed a 21-15 21-10 loss by prime seeds Chen Qing Chen and Jia Yi Fan of China in 42 minutes.
The different ladies’s doubles pairing of Pooja Dandu and Sanjana Santosh’s additionally crashed out of the event, taking place to 3rd seeds Lee So Hee and Shin Seung Chan of Korea 15-21 7-21.
