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Indian shuttlers campaign at the Denmark Open 2026 ended in the quarter-finals, with Treesa Jolly-Gayatri Gopichand and Tanvi Sharma suffering defeats in womens doubles and womens singles on Friday, respectively.
Tanvi, the last Indian shuttler remaining in the tournament, went down 21-15, 21-13 to world No. 1 and top seed An Se-young of the Republic of Korea in a match that lasted 38 minutes. Earlier, the womens doubles pair of Treesa and Gayatri lost 14-21, 21-17, 21-11 to Malaysian pair of Pearly Tan and Thinaah Muralitharan. Ranked 18th in the world, Treesa-Gayatri made a strong start and held an 11-7 lead at the first interval before comfortably taking the opening game, according to Olympics.com. The Malaysians, currently ranked fifth, initially trailed in the second game as well, with the Indian pair establishing a 14-11 advantage. However, Pearly and Thinaah fought back to level the match. The Malaysians dominated the decider, denying the Indian pair a chance to stage an upset. The Malaysian duo had also knocked the Indian pair out in the quarter-finals of the Asian Games 2026 in Japan earlier this month. Meanwhile, world No. 24 Tanvi began promisingly in her first meeting with reigning world and Olympic champion An Se-young but was unable to maintain the momentum as the Korean secured a straight-games victory. Several of Indias leading shuttlers, including PV Sindhu, Unnati Hooda, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty, Lakshya Sen and Ayush Shetty, had exited the BWF Super 750 tournament in the opening round. Kidambi Srikanth progressed to the second round of mens singles before losing to reigning world champion Alex Lanier of France. Indian shuttlers will next compete at the French Open, scheduled to be held from October 20 to 25. (ANI)
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