Korea Open: Indian challenge ends, Kidambi Srikanth is out of tournament
Korea Open: Indian challenge ends, Kidambi Srikanth is out of tournament
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Recently the Indian challenge ended in the Gwangju Korea Masters after Kidambi Srikkanth and Sameer Verma lost in the second straight men's singles game on Thursday. Sixth seed Srikanth had to face a 14-21,19-21 defeat to world number 14 Kanta Sunayama of Japan in the BWF World Tour Super 300 tournament.

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According to the information, Sameer, however, struggled for 40 minutes before losing 19-21,12-21 to local shuttler Kim Donghun (112th ranking). Srikanth slipped to number 11 in the world in the BWF rankings. He had not faced Sunayama before, but he took a 5–1 lead and took it to 10–8. But soon the Japanese player went ahead 14–10, scoring six consecutive points and easily.

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In the second game, Sunayama kept the lead from the beginning which reached 17-12. However, Srikanth did it by 16-17 and 19-20. But in the end the Japanese player won. In another match, Sameer was leading 8-4 in the first game, but Korean player Kim soon made a comeback to take a 10-9 lead. The Indian player managed to stay ahead 11–10 till the break. If we talk about the sources, then Sameer again led 14-12 but Kim returned and won the game. In the second game, Kim took an early lead. Despite Sameer's challenge, the Korean player kept moving forward and the Indian player has come under pressure.

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