Swiss Open 2023: Defending champion PV Sindhu crashes out in 2nd spherical, HS Prannoy and Kidambi Srikanth exit

It was a tricky day for the Indian badminton followers on Wednesday on the Swiss Open 2023 as PV Sindhu, HS Prannoy, and Kidambi Srikkanth exited from the competitors with second-round losses. Mithun Manjunath’s defeat within the second spherical meant that India’s problem within the singles occasion ended.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Mar 24, 2023 07:37 IST

It was a tough day for Indian badminton followers on the Swiss Open (Courtesy: PTI)

By India Today Sports Desk: It was a tough day for India on the Swiss Open 2023 on Wednesday, twenty third March as ace shuttles PV Sindhu, HS Prannoy and Kidambi Srikkanth exited from the competitors.

Mithun Manjunath additionally bowed out from the competitors within the second spherical, which means that India’s singles problem on the Swiss Open has ended.

Sindhu, the defending champion, misplaced to Indonesia’s Putri Kusuma Wardani in three video games with a scoreline of 15-21, 21-12, and 18-21 as her poor run in 2023 continued.

The Commonwealth Games champion was dominated by the 20-year-old Wardani within the first recreation of the match. The second recreation began similarly with Sindhu trailing 6-7 at one level. But the Indian ace rallied again to take an 11-10 benefit into the break.

After the break, Sindhu utterly dominated and outscored her opponent and took the sport 21-12 to push the match into the ultimate recreation.

Wardani was in full management of the third recreation and raced to an 11-5 lead on the break. Sindhu as soon as once more confirmed her resilience and got here again into the competition, making 12-16 at one level. However, Wardani was too sturdy on the day and ended up successful the sport and the match.

Prannoy had a day to neglect on Wednesday as he was defeated by Christo Popov in straight video games with a convincing scoreline of 8-21, 8-21. The 30-year-old Indian ace was one of many favorites heading into the competitors. But he appeared like a pale shadow of himself on Wednesday as he was soundly crushed by Popov.

Srikanth put up a courageous combat in opposition to Hong Kong’s Cheuk Yiu Lee however in the end needed to take the loss on the day. The Indian ace was defeated 22-20, 21-17 in his second-round match.

Manjunath bowed out of the Swiss Open within the second spherical after his straight video games loss to Chinese Taipei’s Chia Hao Lee. Lee defeated the Indian shuttler 21-19, 21-10 to advance to the following spherical.

There was some pleasure for the Indian followers within the males’s doubles occasion because the duo of Satwik and Chirag progressed to the quarterfinals of the competitors with a 12-21, 21-17, and 28-26 win over Chinese Taipei pair Fang-Chih Lee and Fang-Jen Lee.

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Mar 24, 2023