PV Sindhu suffered a shock straight game defeat against Chen Yufei of China in the opening round to crash out of the Denmark Open. After clinching the Korea Open, she had lost in the second round of Japan Open last month. In the second game, Chen surged to a 7-3 lead but Sindhu clawed her way back with four straight points. Meanwhile, the other top Indian woman shuttler Saina Nehwal knocked out Olympic champion Carolina Marin of Spain with a 22-20 21-18 win in a hard-fought first round battle, thereby avenging her Japan Open second round loss to the Spaniard. Satwik and his mixed doubles partner Ashwini Ponnappa, who had reached the semifinals last week at Dutch Open, lost 19-21 17-21 to local combo of Niclas Nohr and Sara Thygesen.

Source: dna October 19, 2017 07:00 UTC