Singapore Open Badminton | India's challenge ends as all stars exit in Round 2
The Indian badminton team, including its best bet Sourabh Verma, bowed out of the Singapore Open after a dismal outing in Singapore on Thursday. Among others, Rituparna Das was shown the exit door by Yulia Yosephin Susanto of Indonesia 21-15, 13-21, 16-21 in a woman’s singles second round match.
Indian shuttlers had a forgettable day at the Singapore Open as all the players in action were knocked out of the tournament on Thursday. Sourabh Verma, who defeated Parupalli Kashyap in the opening round of the tournament, lost to Vietnam’s Tien Minh Nguyen 21-18, 15-21, 11-21 in 56 minutes in a men’s singles match.Â
Rituparna Das was shown the exit door by Yulia Yosephin Susanto of Indonesia 21-15, 13-21, 16-21 in a women’s singles second round match while Ruthvika Shivani succumbed 8-21 15-21 to Japanese fifth seed Sayaka Takahashi in another women’s singles second round match.
India has sorrow in the mixed doubles as well, as the pair of India Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponappa lost 21-14, 16-21, 21-14 to Hong Kong’s
Subhankar Dey, too, lost in straight games to Chinese Taipei’s top seed Tien Chen Chou 13-21 14-21. The men’s doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag
