File picture of Kidambi Srikanth.
High Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth bowed out of the Denmark Open badminton event with a 22-20, 13-21, 16-21 defeat to Chou Tien Chen of Chinese language Taipei within the males’s singles quarterfinals right here on Friday.
The world quantity two Taipei participant got here again after dropping the primary sport and took the subsequent two to win the match in a single hour and two minutes and storm into the semifinals.
With the defeat of Srikanth, seeded fifth, India’s marketing campaign ended within the USD 750,000 Tremendous 750 event, the one world tour occasion taking place this 12 months in a calendar thrown haywire by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Srikanth took the early lead at 7-4 however Chen fought again to 11-10 halfway into the primary sport. The Indian made his means again to 19-19 after which 20-20 earlier than taking the primary sport 22-20.
The second sport noticed Chen dominating Srikanth because the Taipei participant zoomed forward from 10-9 to win it 21-13 and take the match to the decider.
Srikanth put up some struggle within the early exchanges of the decider however appeared to have misplaced means later. Chen left the Indian behind to take the third sport and wrap up the match.
Lakshya Sen had misplaced within the second spherical on Thursday whereas Subhankar Dey and Ajay Jayram had made first spherical exits.
