New Delhi: India’s challenge at the Orleans Masters 2024 badminton tournament in France ended with the Indian men’s doubles pair of Krishna Prasad Garga and Sai Pratik K losing their quarterfinal match on Friday, according to Olympics. .com.
Competing against Denmark’s world number 46 pair of Andreas Sondergaard and Jesper Toft, the Indian badminton players, ranked 20 places below their opponents, lost the match 21-17, 21-16 in 40 minutes. Krishna Prasad Garaga and Sai Prateek K started the match on a tie, but the gap between the two pairs widened as Sondergaard and Jesper Toft took a four-point lead at the break and maintained it till the end of the first game.
At the start of the second game, the Indian badminton pair was leading 5-0. However, Krishna Prasad Garaga and Sai Prateek K took the lead after trailing by one point at the break. Krishna Prasad Garaga and Sai Prateek K remained in the game with the score at 14-14, but Sondergaard and Toft took the lead in the next nine. With seven points in his favor, he entered the semi-finals of the BWF Super 300 event.
With India’s top badminton players competing at the All England Open in Birmingham, Krishna Prasad Garga and Sai Pratik were the only Indian challengers to reach the quarterfinals at the Orleans Masters 2024. Young players Malvika Bansod and Kiran George, who were given entry seeds in the women’s and men’s singles event respectively, lost in the first round.
The Orleans Masters, like the All England Open, provides important ranking points to badminton players for the Paris 2024 Olympics. The ranking period for badminton started on May 1, 2023 and will end next month. (ANI)
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2024-03-17 03:48:35