Nagpur: Second seed and last year’s runner-up Ajay Jayaram crashed out when he was stunned by No. 5 seed Eric Pang of Netherlands in the quarterfinals of the Dutch Open Grand Prix at Almere, Netherlands on Saturday.<\/p>\n
With the exit of title favourite Ajay, PV Sindhu remained the only hope for India in the competition. The unseeded Indian, who impressed everyone with her superb effort in the tournament, will clash with top seed Porntip Buranaprasertsuk of Thailand in the women’s singles semifinals.<\/p>\n
In the men’s singles, the Dutchman dashed the hopes of in-form Indian with a hard-fought 21-11, 22-24, 24-22 in 57 minutes.<\/p>\n
Ajay, world No. 28, wasted two match points in the third game to bow out of the competition and was furious with himself after the close defeat.<\/p>\n
Indian Results (Quarterfinals)<\/p>\n
Men’s singles: 5-Eric Pang (Ned) bt 2-Ajay Jayaram 21-11, 22-24, 24-22.<\/p>\n
Men’s doubles: 4-Ruud Bosch-Koen Ridder (Ned) bt Pranav Chopra-Akshay Dewalkar 21-19, 21-16.<\/p>\n
Women’s doubles: 1-Duanganong Aroonkesorn-Kunchala Voravichitchaikul (Tha) bt Pradnya Gadre-Prajakta Sawant 21-18, 21-7.<\/p>\n
The Times Of India<\/p>\n
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Nagpur: Second seed and last year’s runner-up Ajay Jayaram crashed out when he was stunned by No. 5 seed Eric Pang of Netherlands in the quarterfinals of the Dutch Open Grand Prix at Almere, Netherlands on Saturday. With the exit of title favourite Ajay, PV Sindhu remained the only hope for India in the competition. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-from-the-newspapers"],"yoast_head":"\n