Badminton Asia Championships: seventh seed Kidambi Srikanth used to be India’s 2d giant casualty after Saina Nehwal on Thursday because the megastar shuttler used to be knocked out in males’s singles Spherical of 16.
Kidambi Srikanth misplaced to Weng Hong Yang within the males’s singles Spherical of 16 at BAC 2022 (AFP Photograph)
HIGHLIGHTSKidambi Srikanth knocked out in males’s singles Spherical of 16The seventh seed misplaced to Yang Weng Hong of China 16-21, 21-17, 17-21PV Sindhu stepped forward to the quarter-final of the continental tourney
Global Championships silver medalist Kidam Srikanth used to be knocked out within the Spherical of 16 in males’s singles on the Asian Badminton Championships in Manilla, the Philippines on Thursday. The seventh seed misplaced to qualifier Yang Weng Hong of China 16-21, 21-17, 17-21 in an hour and 17 mins because the Indian shuttler used to be not able to bop again after taking the fit to the decider.
Srikanth fought again neatly from the opening-game defeat to pressure a decider, however the megastar Indian shuttler used to be not able to compare the depth of the Global No. 81 who has been in spectacular shape this season. Wang Hong had come into the continental match at the again of profitable Korea Open Tremendous 500 match.
With Kidambi Srikanth’s go out, the Indian males’s singles marketing campaign on the premier continental match got here to an early finish. fifth seed Lakshya Sen, who used to be anticipated to steer the rustic’s marketing campaign, suffered a surprise first-round go out, dropping to Li Shi Feng 12-21, 21-10, 21-19
Whilst HS Prannoy pulled out, Tokyo Olympian Sai Praneeth misplaced the hole around in instantly video games to Jonathan Christie within the first around.
India’s marketing campaign in the rest of the match will probably be led via PV Sindhu, who stepped forward to the ladies’s singles quarter-final with a hard-fought win on Thursday. Global No. 7 males’s doubles pairing of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty additionally stepped forward to the quarter-final after beating Japan’s Akira Koga and Taichi Saito 21-17, 21-15.
In the meantime, Saina Nehwal, who had gained her opening around after the Asian Video games and Commonwealth Video games snub, misplaced to China’s Wang Zhi Yi 21-12, 7-21, 13-21 in simply 47 mins within the ladies’s singles Spherical of 16.