Lakshya Sen, Saina Nehwal Lose; Home Challenge Ends at India Open

File picture of Lakshya Sen © AFP Defending champ Lakshya Sen suffered a heartbreak, decreasing directly to world number 20 Rasmus Gemke of Denmark in the 2nd round as the Indian ended at the Yonex-Sunrise India Open here on Thursday. World no. 12 Sen decreased an 8-14 deficit in the decider to 13-14 after losing the 2nd video game however could not go the range, losing 21-16 15-21 18-21 to Gemke in a match that lasted an hour and 21 minutes at the IG arena. Ruling champs in males’s doubles, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, who had actually entered the competition after a semifinal surface at Malaysia Super 1000 recently, withdrew from the competition after the previous suffered a hip injury ahead of their second-round clash. London Games bronze medallist Saina Nehwal likewise discovered the going difficult versus Olympic champ Chen Yufei, giving up meekly 9-21 12-21 in simply 32 minutes to draw drapes on India’s project at the Super 750 competition. Previously, Commonwealth Games bronze medallists Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly lost 9-21 16-21 to sixth-seeded Chinese Zhang Shu Xian and Zheng Yu in ladies’s doubles pre-quarterfinals. The increasing guys’s doubles set of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Vishnuvardhan Goud Panjala likewise was no match for China’s Liang Wei Keng and Wang Chang, decreasing 14-21 10-21 in 33 minutes. Sen was preferred to win the match, having actually won the last 2 encounters versus Gemke however the Indian could not discover his ‘A’ video game when it mattered as the Dane revealed much better awareness and control to come up trumps. The match began on an even knell with the 2 appealing in long rallies. Both played high tosses and clears, and waited to put away weak returns. Sen produced some marvelous smashes and soft taps at the web to zoom ahead at 17-12 after the 2 were locked 9-9 at one phase. A cross-court smash and a drop offered Sen 6 video game points. He transformed on the 3rd chance to make the bragging rights. Sen was a touch off in his accuracy after the modification of sides, permitting his challenger to open up a slim 7-5 lead. Gemke decreased the video game and quickly the Indian was delegated do the catch-up task. Gemke preserved his two-point benefit at the break prior to transferring to 14-10 after winning a questionable point. Sen’s shot missed out on the backline however the Indian objected as he felt it had actually touched his challenger’s hand while landing exterior. Quickly it turned 16-10 as Sen looked a bit daz
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