Australian Open Badminton: Indian challenge ends as men's doubles pair loses in semis

Press Trust of India  |  Sydney 

The Indian men's doubles pair of and B Sumeeth Reddy today suffered a straight-game defeat at the hands of and of to bow out of Championship here.

The third seeded duo lost 17-21 15-21 to their top seed opponents in a 39-minute contest at the here.

With the pair's loss, the Indian challenge ended in the tournament. All the orther Indians could not get past the quarterfinals.

Yesterday, fourth seed was shocked by Chinese qualfier Lu Guangzu while second seed B Sai Praneeth was knocked out by in the men's singles quarterfinals.

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First Published: Sat, May 12 2018. 17:00 IST