World No. 7 Sindhu was off shade for the second consecutive day as she squandered a sport result in go down 21-18 17-21 12-21 towards Intanon, ranked eighth, in a 59-minute first girls’s singles match.
Double Olympic medalist PV Sindhu fought onerous earlier than dropping to Ratchanok Intanon within the opening match because the Indian girls’s badminton group suffered a 0-3 thrashing by the hands of Thailand within the quarterfinals of the Uber Cup Closing Bangkok on Thursday.
World No. 7 Sindhu was off shade for the second consecutive day as she squandered a sport result in go down 21-18 17-21 12-21 towards Intanon, ranked eighth, in a 59-minute first girls’s singles match.
The defeat means Sindhu now trails Intanon 4-7 on head-to-head document.
India slumped to 0-2 down when the ladies’s doubles pair of Shruti Mishra and Simran Singhi misplaced 16-21 13-21 towards the Thai pair of Jongkolphan Kititharakul and Rawinda Prajongjai.
It was no higher for Aakarshi Kashyap, who surrendered 16-21 11-21 to Pornpawee Chochuwong within the second singles match that lasted 42 minutes.
As Thailand took an unassailable 3-0 lead, the remaining two matches of the tie turned redundant and was not performed.
Within the second girls’s doubles contest the Indian pair of Tanisha Crasto and Treesa Jolly was to face Benyapa Aimsaard and Nuntakarn Aimsaard, whereas Ashmita Chaliha was scheduled to play Busanan Ongbamrungphan.
Earlier on Wednesday, Sindhu misplaced in straight video games 15-21 14-21 towards world quantity 4 An Seyoung in India’s last Group D match, the place it was blanked 0-5 by Korea.
However the loss hardly made any distinction as India, by then, had already sealed a quarterfinal berth after guaranteeing a top-two end within the group after back-to-back victories over Canada and USA.
The Indian males’s group will play Malaysia within the quarterfinals of the Thomas Cup Closing later within the day.
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