P.V. Sindhu was the only Indian who managed to get through to the second round of the Indonesia Masters on Wednesday in what tuned out to be a disappointing day for shuttlers from the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While defending champion Saina Nehwal and the in-form men’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty were knocked out, Sindhu came from a game down to beat Japan’s Aya Ohori.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earlier, Saina won the first game against Takahashi but was then completely outclassed in the second and third to the point that she only managed to take five points from the final game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kidambi Srikanth went down to local favourite Shesar Hiren Rhustavito 21-18, 12-21, 14-21 in a match lasting one hour and three minutes. It was Srikanth’s second consecutive opening round defeat this season as he had also made a first round exit from the Malaysia Masters last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the games that were played after Sindhu’s match, India’s male competitors all fell to home opposition. Sameer Verma managed to take his match against Tommy Sugiarto into a tie-breaker but ended up losing 19-21, 21-16, 13-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rankireddy and Chirag lost 20-22, 15-21 to Mohammad Afsan and Hendra Setiawan. Parupalli Kashyap was beaten 14-21, 12-21 by Anthony Ginting, while H.S. Prannoy lost 17-21, 14-21 to Jonathan Christie in the last match of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sourabh Verma lost to Chinese shuttler Lu Guangzu in the opening round as well. Despite winning the first game 21-17, the Indian shuttler went down 15-21, 10-21 in the next two to crash out of the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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