BWF World Tour Finals: Srikanth, Ashwini Ponnappa-Sikki Reddy pair lose; Satwik-Chirag pull out as a consequence of harm

Kidambi Srikanth and Ashwini Ponnappa- N Sikki Reddy misplaced their group matches whereas Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty pulled out as a consequence of an harm in BWF World Tour Finals. BWF World Tour Finals: Kidambi Srikanth suffered defeat in 2nd Group B sport (AFP Photo)HIGHLIGHTSWomen’s doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy went down preventingSatwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty pulled out as a consequence of an harmLakshya and Axelsen are set to qualify from group AIndian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth suffered a straight-game defeat in his second Group B match and the ladies’s doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy misplaced their second successive match on the season-ending BWF World Tour Finals on Thursday.

Srikanth jeopardised his probabilities of making it to the knockout stage of the BWF World Tour Finals after dropping to Thailand’s Kunlavut Vitidsarn. The Indian duo will face England’s Chloe Birch and Lauren Smith of their final Group B match.Earlier, the ladies’s doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy went down preventing 19-21, 20-22 to Bulgaria’s Gabriela Stoeva and Stefani Stoeva to bow out of competition.The prime males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty handed a walkover to the top-seeded Indonesian pair of Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo after the previous complained of knee ache. The duo is not going to take part additional within the match.For Srikanth, it was his third defeat to Vitidsarn, having misplaced to him on the Sudirman Cup in September and Asia Team Championships final 12 months.In Group B, Malaysian second seed Lee Zii Jia is on the prime with two factors, whereas Srikanth and Vitidsarn shared some extent every after registering one victory and one loss.While Srikanth will face Lee Zii Jia in his third match, Vitidsarn will meet France’s, Toma Junior Popov.The winner will end within the prime 2 and qualify for the knockout stage, and if each win their respective matches, it is going to boil all the way down to the variety of video games gained and misplaced.On Wednesday, Lakshya Sen, the youngest Indian to qualify for the year-ending occasion, made it to the semifinals after his opponent Kento Momota retired with a again harm and Denmark’s Rasmus Gemke, who can be in Group A, conceded his match in opposition to compatriot Viktor Axelsen as a consequence of a knee harm.With each Momota and Gemke pulling out, Lakshya and Axelsen are set to qualify from the group.Click right here for IndiaToday.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.