Indonesia Open 2018: HS Prannoy and PV Sindhu crash out of the tournament 

The Indian challenge ended as both HS Prannoy and PV Sindhu lost their quarter final matches at Super 1000 tournament played at Jakarta, Indonesia on Friday. Both of them did not have a great outing and were outclassed by their opponents in straight games.

In men’s singles, HS Prannoy took on All England Champion Shi Yuqi of China. Both players started on equal footing at 3-3. Shi Yuqi showed his class and took a lead of 6-3.

Prannoy made a comeback to reduce the gap to 7-8 in favour of the Chinese. At the interval, Shi Yuqi led 11-8. After the interval, Prannoy tried to make a comeback into the game but Shi played aggressive badminton to win the first game 21-17.

The second game also saw both players taking alternate points till 3-3. Shi then played aggressive badminton to take a 6-3 lead. Prannoy fought back brilliantly to level the scores at 7-7.

At the interval, Shi led 11-8. After the interval, Shi had a comfortable lead of 16-14 but Prannoy made a strong comeback to level the scores at 17-17. The Chinese held his nerves and won the second game 21-18 to progress into the semi-finals.

PV Sindhu took on He Bingjao in the women’s singles. It was a disappointing performance by Sindhu, who committed lots of errors. In the first game, Bingjao started on a positive note but the Commonwealth Games silver medallist showed great fighting spirit to level the scores at 10-10. The Chinese had 11-10 lead at the interval. After the interval, Bingjao took points to win the first set 21-14.

The Olympic silver medalist made a bright start to the second game, taking an early 5-1 lead. Bingjao made a strong comeback to take an 11-9 lead at the interval. After the interval, the Chinese continued her domination and won the 2nd game 21-15 to progress into the semi-finals.