Commonwealth Video games males’s doubles champions Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty suffered an opening-round defeat within the China Open Tremendous 1000 match, taking place in three video games to Indonesia’s Muhammad Shohibul Fikri and Maulana Bagas on Wednesday.
The Indian pair, ranked two, misplaced to the world quantity 13 duo 17-21, 21-11, 17-21 in a single hour eight minutes.
The Indian combined doubles pair of Sikki Reddy and Rohan Kapoor additionally crashed out of the match, taking place to the Malaysian duo of Chen Tang Jie and Toh Ee Wei 15-21, 16-21 within the first spherical.
With the defeats, the Indian problem got here to an finish as no shuttler from the nation might advance to the second spherical of the match.
The loss within the opening spherical simply forward of the Asian Video games could be an enormous disappointment for Satwik and Chirag after their success within the Swiss Open Tremendous 300, Korea Open and the Indonesia Open Tremendous 1000 earlier this yr.
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That is the second time the Indonesians have crushed the Satwik-Chirag pair this yr. They’d defeated the Indian duo within the pre-quarterfinals of the Thailand Open in June.
On Tuesday, World Championship bronze medallist HS Prannoy too had made a shock opening-round exit after taking place in three video games to Malaysia’s Ng Tze Yong.
Reigning Commonwealth Video games champion Lakshya Sen had additionally crashed out of the match within the first spherical after shedding to Anders Antonsen of Denmark in three video games.