Japan Open 2024 Badminton: India’s Campaign Ends With Sathish Kumar Karunakaran’s Loss In Pre-Quarterfinals

Yokohama: India’s crusade on the Japan Open 2024 badminton match ended after Sathish Kumar Karunakaran lost inner the spherical of sixteen of the adult males’s singles tournament in Yokohama on Thursday.

Karunakaran, Forty seventh inner the badminton rankings, went the total way down to world No. forty Kantaphon Wangcharoen of Thailand 21-18, 18-21, 8-21 in one hour and 10 minutes, as per the Olympics.com.

Wangcharoen raced to a ten-four lead inner the first recreation. Kantaphon had a proceed grip inner the hole recreation then as soon as extra the Indian badminton participant put in a comeback by utilising prevailing eight aspects on the jump after trailing 18-thirteen at one stage.

Inner the second recreation, Karunakaran went into the mid-recreation interval with a eleven-9 lead. He had a four-aspect purchase at 15-eleven then as soon as extra the Thai shuttler got 10 of the next thirteen aspects to electrical energy a decider.

The optimal recreation visible a dominant straightforward performance from Wangcharoen, who stormed to a thirteen-three lead and then controlled the recreation to proceed his location inner the quarter-finals.

On Wednesday, Karunakaran had optimal to the pre-quarterfinals after his opponent world No. three Anders Antonsen of Denmark pulled out of the organic on account of an hurt.

Karunakaran was once the correct Indian shuttler from the ten-member contingent to make the spherical of sixteen on the BWF Great 750 tournament in Japan.

Three challengers inner the women’s singles model – Malvika Bansod, Ashmita Chaliha and Aakarshi Kashyap – crashed out after defeats in their respective first-spherical fits. Kiran George, in adult males’s singles, additionally suffered the identical fate.

In mixed doubles, Commonwealth Video games medallists B Sumeeth Reddy and N Sikki Reddy conceded their opener on account of a mid-recreation hurt. Karunakaran, paired with Aadya Variyath for the mixed doubles tournament, too was once knocked out inner the hole spherical.

The Panda sisters, Rutuparna and Swetaparna, additionally crashed out inner the first spherical of the women’s doubles tournament, as per Olympics.com.

India’s seven-member Paris 2024 badminton team, which consists of PV Sindhu and Lakshya Sen, did now not participate inner the Japan Open.

The Indian badminton avid gamers will now be considered in action on the Korea Open BWF Great five hundred tournament to be held in Seoul subsequent week.