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  • Orleans Masters: Krishna-Vishnu pair goes down in males’s doubles closing

    The Indian pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Vishnu Vardhan Goud let slip a robust begin to go all the way down to England’s Ben Lane and Sean Vendy within the males’s doubles finals of the Orleans Masters badminton event right here on Sunday.
    The unheralded Indians, the one ones left in rivalry from the nation on the ultimate day, misplaced 21-19, 14-21, 19-21 in a 56-minute battle with the fourth seeds.

    The Indian duo of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Vishnu Vardhan Goud misplaced 21-19, 14-21, 19-21 to Ben Lane and Sean Vendy within the males’s doubles closing of the Orleans Masters. pic.twitter.com/rygjnZ4NFI
    — Prasar Bharati News Services पी.बी.एन.एस. (@PBNS_India) March 28, 2021
    Krishna and Vishnu had paired for the primary time on this occasion and can be happy with the outcomes they managed.
    Krishna, 21, is India’s no. 1 ranked doubles participant and used to pair up with Satwiksairaj Rankireddy in his junior days.
    After Satwik and Chirag Shetty have been paired collectively, Krishna began enjoying with Dhruv Kapila since November, 2016.
    The duo continued for 2 and a half years earlier than separating in 2019.
    The 20-year-old Vishnu additionally performed with a couple of different Indian doubles gamers in his junior days.
    He and Ishaan Bhatnagar had reached the finals on the 2019 Bulgarian Junior worldwide.
    Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have been the primary Indian pair to win a brilliant 100 occasion at Hyderabad in 2018.
    The duo additionally went on to win Thailand Open 500 and reaching the finals of French Open 750 occasion.
    Krishna had earlier paired with Shlok Ramchandran, whereas for the 20-year-old Vishnu, it’s his first worldwide event on the senior stage.
    On Saturday, Saina Nehwal bowed out in straight video games within the ladies’s singles semifinals to finish India’s singles problem on the event.
    Saina misplaced 17-21, 17-21 to Denmark’s Line Christophersen in her semifinal conflict.

  • Orleans Masters: Saina Nehwal bows out, Krishna-Vishnu enter first Super 100 last

    Saina Nehwal bowed out in straight video games within the ladies’s singles semifinals however the unheralded duo of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Vishnu Vardhan Goud Panjala stored India within the title hunt by storming into the boys’s doubles last on the Orleans Masters right here on Saturday.
    London Olympic bronze medallist, Saina misplaced 17-21 17-21 to Denmark’s Line Christophersen in 28 minutes, whereas ladies’s duo of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy additionally faltered 18-21 9-21 to prime seeded Thai pair of Jongkolphan Kititharakul and Rawinda Prajongjai on the semifinals.
    However, Krishna and Vishnu cheered up the Indian camp with a 21-17 21-17 win over English pair of Callum Hemming and Steven Stallwood in a 35-minute semifinal conflict to succeed in their maiden last of a Super 100 occasion.
    The Indian duo, enjoying their first occasion collectively this yr, will tackle both Indonesian pair of Sabar Karyaman Gutama and Moh Reza Pahlevi Isfahani or fourth-seeded English mixture of Ben Lane and Sean Vendy within the title conflict on Sunday.
    Krishna and Vishnu had a slender 4-2 early on however the English pair quickly jumped to a 11-8 lead on the break.
    However, the Indian pai quickly caught up at 13-13 and marched on to seal the opening sport.
    In the second sport, Krishna and Vishnu slowly moved forward to a 11-7 benefit on the interval and regardless that their rivals narrowed down the hole to 15-17, the Indian duo ensured there was no hiccups.
    Krishna, 21, is India’s no. 1 ranked doubles participant and used to pair up with Satwiksairaj Rankireddy in his junior days.
    After Satwik and Chirag Shetty had been paired collectively, Krishna began enjoying with Dhruv Kapila since November, 2016. The duo continued for 2 and a half years earlier than separating in 2019.
    The 20-year-old Vishnu additionally performed with a couple of different Indian doubles gamers in his junior days. He and Ishaan Bhatnagar had reached the finals on the 2019 Bulgarian Junior worldwide.

  • Orleans Masters: Saina Nehwal enters semifinals, Kidambi Srikanth loses

    Indian ace Saina Nehwal eked out an exhilarating three-game win over USA’s Iris Wang to advance to the ladies’s singles semifinals however Kidambi Srikanth crashed out of the lads’s singles competitors on the Orleans Masters badminton event right here on Friday.
    It is the primary semifinals in two years for world no. 20 Saina, who’s determined to build up rating factors to make it to her 4 Olympics on the Tokyo Games. Her final semifinal look was in January 2019 within the Indonesia Masters 500 event which she had received.
    The fourth-seeded Indian, who had withdrawn from the All England Championships final week as a consequence of an damage, needed to dig deep to script a 21-19 17-21 21-19 win over world no. 36 Wang in a gruelling quarterfinals match that lasted precisely an hour.
    The London Olympic bronze medallist will face both Denmark’s Line Christophersen or compatriot Ira Sharma for a spot within the finals on the Super 100 occasion, which is part of BWF’s revised Olympic qualification occasions.
    Former world primary Srikanth, nevertheless, reduce a sorry determine as he went down 19-21 17-21 to France’s Toma Junior Popov in a 31-minute males’s singles quarterfinals.

    Star doubles participant Ashwini Ponnappa dished out an outstanding recreation as she first paired up with N Sikki Reddy to notch up a surprising 21-14 21-18 win over England’s third seeded duo of Chloe Birch and Lauren Smith in ladies’s doubles.
    Ashwini then mixed with Dhruv Kapila to outwit England’s Max Flynn and Jessica Pugh 21-13 21-18 in blended doubles quarterfinals.
    Ashwini and Sikki, world no. 25, will face prime seeded Thailand mixture of Jongkolphan Kititharakul and Rawinda Prajongjai subsequent in ladies’s doubles.
    Ashwini and Dhruv will meet Niclas Nohr and Amalie Magelund in blended doubles semifinals.
    Young Ira Sharma additionally was no match for Christophersen, happening 11-21 8-21 in one other ladies’s singles quarterfinals.
    Earlier, the Indian males’s doubles pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Vishnu Vardhan Goud Panjala outwitted world no. 47 French duo of Christo Popov and Toma Junior Popov 21-17 10-21 22-20 in an hour and three minutes to make it to the semifinals.
    The unheralded Indian duo will face England’s Callum Hemming and Steven Stallwood for a spot within the ultimate on Saturday.
    The English pair had ended the marketing campaign of Indian seventh seeds MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila 21-19 18-21 23-21 within the quarterfinals.
    Saina dished out a compact recreation as she led 11-5 on the first interval however Wang narrowed the hole to 13-15 after the break. The American reeled off 5 straight factors subsequent to seize a 18-16 lead.
    However, Saina sealed the opening recreation with 4 straight factors.
    The second recreation was a detailed affair as each the gamers fought arduous earlier than Saina eked out a slender 13-11 lead on the mid-game however a decided Wang pushed forward and roared again into contest.
    In the decider, Saina led 6-4 after which 12-8. The Indian saved her nostril forward regardless of Wang respiratory down her neck. Saina grabbed three match factors, wasted two of them earlier than clinching the match.

  • Orleans Masters: Saina Nehwal, Kidambi Srikanth make profitable begins

    London Olympics bronze medallist Saina Nehwal crushed Ireland’s Rachael Darragh in straight video games within the ladies’s singles opening spherical to make a profitable begin to her marketing campaign on the Orleans Masters in Paris on Wednesday.
    The fourth seeded Indian, who’s desperately looking for rating factors to make it to her fourth Olympics, took simply 21 minutes to beat Rachael 21-9 21-5 and arrange a conflict with France’s Marie Batomene right here.
    Saina had pulled out of the opening spherical of All England Open Championships final week after struggling a thigh harm.Top Indian male shuttler Kidambi Srikanth, seeded primary, entered the third spherical with a 21-15 21-10 win over compatriot Ajay Jayaram 21-15 21-10 in 25 minutes.
    In the primary spherical, Srikanth had acquired a bye, whereas Ajay had prevailed 19-21 23-21 21-16 over fellow Indian Alap Mishra.
    Mixed doubles pair of Pranaav Jerry Chopra and N Sikki Reddy beat Austria’s Dominik Stipsits and Serena Au Yeong 21-7 21-18. The Indian duo will meet Denmark’s Niclas Nohr and Amalie Magelund subsequent.
    Ira Sharma, who was promoted to the principle draw from the ladies’s singles qualification, noticed off France’s Leonice Huet 12-21 21-14 21-17 and can sq. off in opposition to Bulgaria’s Mariya Mitsova.
    On Tuesday, India’s Kiran George had surprised Netherland’s Mark Caljouw, who had reached the semifinals of All England Championships final week, 13-21 21-18 22-20 in an exciting opening spherical match.
    Mithun Manjunath beat France’s Lucas Claerbout 21-14 21-10 however Subhankar Dey misplaced 17-21 13-21 to Denmark’s Ditlev Jaeger Holm within the opening spherical.