Indian men s badminton team loses to Indonesia in quarters
Monday - August 20, 2018 6:00 pm ,
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Indian men s badminton team loses to Indonesia in quarters
Jakarta Aug 20 (IANS) India s men s badminton team lost 1-3 to hosts Indonesia in the quarter-finals of the 18th Asian Games here on Monday.
H.S. Prannoy was the only Indian to have got a point for India while Kidambi Srikanth and the doubles pairs of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty and Manu Attri and B. Sumeeth Reddy lost.
Srikanth lost to Anthony Ginting 21-23 23-21 10-21 as the hosts got a 1-0 lead. The hosts doubled their advantage when Satwik-Chirag fell to Marcus Fernaldi Gideon-Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo 21-19 19-21 16-21.
Prannoy then defeated Jonatan Christie 21-15 21-19 to keep India in the contest with the win making it 1-2 at the Istora Senayan Stadium.
However Manu-summeth coulnd t take the contest to the decider losing 14-21 18-21 to Fahar Alfian and Muhammad Rian Ardianto as Indonesia won 3-1 to enter the semi-finals.
In other quarter-finals Japan thrashed defending champions South Korea 3-0 Chinese Taipei crushed Nepal 3-0 and China routed Hong Kong 3-0.
In the semi-finals on Tuesday Japan will meet Indonesia while Chinese Taipei will take on China.
--IANS pur/sed
H.S. Prannoy was the only Indian to have got a point for India while Kidambi Srikanth and the doubles pairs of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty and Manu Attri and B. Sumeeth Reddy lost.
Srikanth lost to Anthony Ginting 21-23 23-21 10-21 as the hosts got a 1-0 lead. The hosts doubled their advantage when Satwik-Chirag fell to Marcus Fernaldi Gideon-Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo 21-19 19-21 16-21.
Prannoy then defeated Jonatan Christie 21-15 21-19 to keep India in the contest with the win making it 1-2 at the Istora Senayan Stadium.
However Manu-summeth coulnd t take the contest to the decider losing 14-21 18-21 to Fahar Alfian and Muhammad Rian Ardianto as Indonesia won 3-1 to enter the semi-finals.
In other quarter-finals Japan thrashed defending champions South Korea 3-0 Chinese Taipei crushed Nepal 3-0 and China routed Hong Kong 3-0.
In the semi-finals on Tuesday Japan will meet Indonesia while Chinese Taipei will take on China.
--IANS pur/sed
