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Gold Coast: India were beaten 1-4 by Denmark in their opening match of the Sudirman Cup mixed team badminton championship at the Carrara Indoor Sports Stadium here on Monday.<\/p>\nGold Coast: India were beaten 1-4 by Denmark in their opening match of the Sudirman Cup mixed team badminton championship at the Carrara Indoor Sports Stadium here on Monday.<\/p>\n
Apart from Olympic silver medallist P.V. Sindhu, who defeated Line Kjaersfeldt 21-18 21-6 in the women’s singles match, no other player rose to the occasion.<\/p>\n
In the first match of Group 1D, despite some good showing, the mixed doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy went down to Joachim Fischer Nielsen and Christinna Pedersen 15-21 21-16 17-21 in a match which lasted around one hour.<\/p>\n
It was also a bad day for Ajay Jayaram, as he was beaten in straight sets 12-21 7-21 by Viktor Axelsen in the mens’ singles match.<\/p>\n
In the men’s doubles category, Manu Attri and B. Sumeeth Reddy also failed to win their match as they were outplayed by former Olympic silver medallists Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen.<\/p>\n
In a match which lasted around 30 minutes, the Danish pair defeated the Indian duo 21-17 21-15.<\/p>\n
With three losses, all eyes were on Sindhu as the Hyderabadi shuttler outplayed Kjaersfeldt comfortably to make it 1-3 in the tie.<\/p>\n
The last match of the tie saw another dismal performance from the womens’ doubles pair of Ashwini and N. Sikki Reddy.<\/p>\n
The Indian pair, however gave some fight before going down to Kamilla Rytter Juhl and Christinna 21-18 15-21 21-23.<\/p>\n
India will now take on Indonesia on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gold Coast: India were beaten 1-4 by Denmark in their opening match of the Sudirman Cup mixed team badminton championship at the Carrara Indoor Sports Stadium here on Monday.<\/p>\n
Apart from Olympic silver medallist P.V. Sindhu, who defeated Line Kjaersfeldt 21-18 21-6 in the women’s singles match, no other player rose to the occasion.<\/p>\n
In the first match of Group 1D, despite some good showing, the mixed doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy went down to Joachim Fischer Nielsen and Christinna Pedersen 15-21 21-16 17-21 in a match which lasted around one hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[22220,5710,9506],"class_list":["post-34831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-badminton-badminton","tag-carrara-indoor-sports-stadium","tag-pv-sindhu","tag-sudirman-cup"],"yoast_head":"\n