Denmark Open badminton: Indian challenge ends in doubles

India's doubles campaign ended at Denmark Open bminton tournament after women's and mixed pairings from country bowed out following hard-fought first-round losses here on Wednesday.

Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand (women's doubles) and B Sumeeth Reddy and N Sikki Reddy (mixed doubles) suffered three-game defeats in ir opening contests.

Taking court first, Treesa and Gayatri squandered a game's le to go down 21-19 17-21 15-21 against fifth-seeded Malaysian combination of Pearly Tan and Muralitharan Thinaah in a match that lasted one hour and 14 minutes.

odds were stacked against world no.21 Indian team as it h an inferior 1-5 he-to-he record against ir world no.7 opponents from Malaysia.

But Treesa and Gayatri gave ir rivals a tough fight before bowing out.

In mixed doubles too, Sumeeth Reddy and Sikki Reddy let slip a game's le to lose 22-20 19-21 22-24 to Canian pair of Kevin Lee and Eliana Zhang in one hour and two minutes.

Later on Wednesday, promising Unnati Hooda will be up against USA's Lauren Lam in her women's singles opening-round match, while Satish Kumar Karunakaran will play Li Yang Su of Chinese Taipei in men's singles.

On Tuesday, Lakshya Sen, a 2021 World Championships bronze-medallist, crashed out of men's singles event after suffering a three-game defeat at hands of China's Lu Guang Zu in first round.

Malvika Bansod and Aakarshi Kashyap too me first-round exits from women's singles competition.

However, two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu moved into second round after her opponent Pai Yu Po of Chinese Taipei retired midway in second game with score reing 21-8 13-7 in Indian's favour.