Srikanth bows out of Denmark Open in pre-quarterfinals

Former champion Kidambi Srikanth bowed out of the Denmark Open Super 750 event after struggling a straight-game defeat to Loh Kean Yew of Singapore within the pre-quarterfinals right here on Thursday.

Srikanth misplaced to the seventh seeded opponent 13-21 15-21 in a match that lasted 35 minutes.

Srikanth, the 2021 World Championships silver medallist, had received the title right here in 2017. He had a head-to-head report of 1-1 towards Yew earlier than Thursday’s match.

In males’s doubles, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, seeded seventh within the event, superior to the quarterfinals with a 21-14 21-16 win over Indonesia’s Muhammad Shohibul Fikri and Maulana Bagas in a 36-minute spherical of 16 match.

The Indian duo subsequent faces the fourth seeded Malaysian pair of Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik within the quarterfinals.

The girls’s doubles duo of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand in addition to the combined doubles pair of Ishaan Bhatnagar and Tanisha Crasto additionally bowed out of the event within the pre-quarterfinals.

While Treesa and Gayatri misplaced to the sixth seeded Thai pair of Jongkolphan Kititharakul 21-23 13-21, Ishaan and Tanisha suffered 16-21 10-21 defeat towards second seeded Japanese duo of Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino.