The Indian marketing campaign on the Korea Open Tremendous 500 suffered a blow on Thursday, because the contingent misplaced all 4 of their accomplished matches at Yeosu, South Korea.
Males’s doubles crew of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, the third seeds, are but to play and can tackle China’s He Ji Ting and Zhou Hao Dong.
Within the first match of the day that includes an Indian participant, fifth seed males’s singles participant HS Prannoy misplaced in straight-games to Lee Cheuk Yiu of Hong Kong, dropping a decent, 66 minute-long match 15-21, 21-19, 18-21.
The ladies’s doubles pair of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly had been the subsequent to exit after dropping 11-21, 4-21 to second seeds Baek Ha Na and Lee So Hee of South Korea.
Priyanshu Rajawat did put up a robust displaying in opposition to prime seed from Japan Kodai Naraoka, however misplaced 14-21, 21-18, 17-21 in one other tight contest that lasted an hour and 22 minutes.
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Priyanshu Rajawat’s valiant show in useless as he goes right down to Japan’s Kodai Naraoka 14-21, 21-18, 17-21 in an 82-minute-long battle. pic.twitter.com/Z8IWHhwZPK
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Later, Rohan Kapoor and N Sikki Reddy misplaced the blended doubles Spherical of 16 tie to fourth seeded Chinese language pair Feng Yan Zhe and Huang Dong Ping 15-21, 12-21.
Because it stands, Rankireddy and Shetty are the one Indians left lively within the contest. They are going to be taking part in later at present.
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