Home
Chak De India
Badminton
Indian challenge in Thailand Masters ends as former no. 1 Kidambi Srikant & Subramanian crash out

Indian challenge in Thailand Masters ends as former no. 1 Kidambi Srikant & Subramanian crash out

Kidambi Srikanth and Sankar Muthusamy exited the Thailand Masters quarterfinals. While the challenge remains in doubles and women's singles.

Indian badminton players Kidambi Srikanth, who is former world number 1 and Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian were defeated in their men’s singles quarterfinal matches at the Thailand Masters Super 300 tournament on Friday. Srikanth lost to China’s Zheng Xing Wang with scores of 17-21, 16-21. Subramanian, who was once the world’s top junior player, was unable to beat another Chinese opponent, Xuan Chen Zhu, and lost with scores of 21-19, 18-21, 13-21 after a match lasting one hour and 10 minutes.

Upcoming doubles and singles matches

Later in the competition, the Indian men’s doubles team of Pruthvi Krishnamurthy Roy and K. Sai Pratheek, seeded eighth, is set to compete against the second seeds, Muhammad Shohibul Fikri and Daniel Marthin from Indonesia. Additionally, Indian player Rakshitha Ramraj will compete against Thailand’s Thamonwan Nithiittikrai in the women’s singles quarterfinal.

More on Indian sports

Tough road for Kidambi Srikanth

In the past year, Kidambi Srikanth participated in several badminton tournaments. He reached the semifinals of the Swiss Open and quarterfinals of the Macau Open and French Open. Srikanth’s only wins came in team achievements, including winning the Thomas & Uber Cup and Selangor Asia Team Championships. His performance varied, with mixed results.

Follow
Share

Editor's Pick

Why India would have had same Dubai advantage if they traveled to Pakistan for Champions Trophy Cricket Why India would have had same Dubai advantage if they traveled to Pakistan for Champions Trophy

Top Stories

Share article
Follow us on social media
Tell us why didn’t you like our article so that we can improve on?
Choose ranking:
ICC Test Ranking
ICC ODI Ranking
ICC T20I Ranking