World No. 9 and fifth seed H S Prannoy made a surprising second-round exit from the Swiss Open Super 300 badminton event after shedding in straight video games towards unseeded Christo Popov of France on Thursday. Prannoy, favorite coming into the competition, appeared a pale shadow of himself in entrance of world No. 40 Popov as he failed to offer any struggle, shedding 8-21, 8-21 to bow out of the boys’s singles occasion. It turned out to be a foul in workplace for Indian shuttlers as Kidambi Srikanth was the primary to crash out on Thursday, shedding to Hong Kong’s Cheuk Yiu Lee.

Going by rankings, there was hardly something to separate the 2 as Srikanth is positioned twentieth on the earth as towards his rival’s nineteenth place.

It was a hard-fought match, however Lee saved his composure to emerge 22-20, 21-17 winner within the singles pre-quarterfinal contest.

National champion Mithun Manjunath additionally bowed out within the second spherical, shedding 19-21, 10-21 to Chia Hao Lee of Chinese Taipei.

On Wednesday evening, Prannoy had defeated All England Championships finalist Shi Yu Qi of China to storm into the boys’s singles pre-quarterfinals.

Two-time Olympic medallist and fourth seed PV Sindhu made a constructive begin to her title defence on Wednesday, beating Jenjira Stadelmann of Switzerland 21-9, 21-16 in a lopsided opening spherical ladies’s singles match.

Sindhu will tackle 20-year-old Indonesian Putri Kusuma Wardani, who was a part of the gold medal-winning staff of the 2022 Asia Team Championships, in her second-round match.

Second-seeded males’s pairing of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will face the Taiwanese pair of Fang-Chih Lee and Fang-Jen Lee.