Indian shuttlers endured a tricky day on the Denmark Open Tremendous 750 match on Wednesday, with the nation’s problem in each girls’s and combined doubles ending in heartbreaking first-round defeats. The ladies’s doubles pairing of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand fought valiantly however in the end fell to Malaysia’s fifth-seeded duo, Pearly Tan and Muralitharan Thinaah, in a grueling three-game match. After taking the primary recreation 21-19, the Indian pair could not preserve their momentum, dropping 17-21 and 15-21 in a battle that stretched for over an hour.

Regardless of their earlier 1-5 head-to-head report in opposition to the world No. 7 Malaysian opponents, Treesa and Gayatri gave a robust efficiency, displaying promise however bowing out early.

Within the combined doubles, the skilled Indian pair of B. Sumeeth Reddy and N. Sikki Reddy additionally suffered a slim defeat. The duo was edged out by Canada’s Kevin Lee and Eliana Zhang after a nail-biting contest that lasted one hour and two minutes. After profitable the primary recreation 22-20, the Indians had been unable to shut out the match, dropping the following two video games 19-21 and 22-24 in an agonizingly shut end.

Whereas the doubles pairs confronted early exits, India nonetheless had hope within the singles occasions. The lone shiny spot for India got here from double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu, who moved into the second spherical of the ladies’s singles. Sindhu was main comfortably 21-8, 13-7 when her opponent, Chinese language Taipei’s Pai Yu Po, retired halfway by means of the second recreation, gifting the Indian a protected passage into the following spherical.

On Tuesday, nonetheless, Lakshya Sen, a 2021 World Championship bronze-medallist, crashed out of the boys’s singles after a hard-fought three-game defeat in opposition to China’s Lu Guang Zu.

Girls’s singles gamers Malvika Bansod and Aakarshi Kashyap additionally noticed their campaigns come to an finish with first-round losses. Bansod struggled in opposition to Vietnam’s Nguyen Thuy Linh, whereas Kashyap misplaced in straight units to the formidable South Korean shuttler, An Se-young.

Promising younger expertise Unnati Hooda was set to tackle Lauren Lam of the USA later within the day, whereas Satish Kumar Karunakaran would face Li Yang Su of Chinese language Taipei within the males’s singles.