Asia Badminton Championships: Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu has crashed out of the women’s singles quarterfinals of the Badminton Asia Championships 2023 at the Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Indoor Hall in Dubai. Sindhu squashed a game lead to go down against second seed An Se Young of Korea on Friday. India’s other hope in the men’s singles quarterfinals, HS Prannoy has vowed out as well but his departure has been due to an unwarranted injury. Follow Badminton Asia Championships 2023 LIVE updates on InsideSport.IN
Indian shuttler P.V. Sindhu loses in the Quarter Finals of Women’s Singles, to An Se-young of South Korea by 21-18, 5-21, 9-21.
HS Prannoy crashes out to Kanta Tsuneyama of Japan by 11-21, 9-13 after being retired hurt.
— All India Radio News (@airnewsalerts) April 28, 2023
Sindhu, seeded eighth, had pocked the first game 21-18 but looked completely off colour in the next two games which she lost 5-21 9-21 to hand Young a place in the semifinals. Sindhu ranked eleventh, succumbed to the South Korean shuttler for the 6th consecutive time.
Prannoy’s unfortunate injury
The other Indian hope, eight seed HS Prannoy too bowed out in the men’s singles quarterfinals after conceding his match midway against Kanta Tsuneyama of Japan.
Prannoy was trailing 11-21 9-13 when he retired due to an injury.
Badminton Asia Championships 2023
MS – QF21 13 🇯🇵 Kanta TSUNEYAMA🏅
11 9 🇮🇳 HS PRANNOY (ret)🕚 in 34 minutes#BAC2023
— Yosmo Disko Koplo (@OptaMola) April 28, 2023
Double’s action for India
Earlier in the day, qualifiers Rohan Kapoor and N Sikki Reddy battled hard before losing a tough three-game mixed doubles contest against Dejan Ferdinansyah and Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja of Indonesia.
The Indian pair fought for one hour and five minutes before losing the quarterfinal by 18-21 21-19 15-21 margin.
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