Denmark Open 2022 Day 1: Kidambi Srikanth and women’s doubles pair move into second round

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 It was a great start for Indian shuttlers on the European tour as Kidambi Srikanth and the women’s doubles pairing of Tressa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand moved into the second round with contrasting wins in Super 750 event played at Odense, Denmark on Tuesday.

Kidambi Srikanth started his campaign with a shaky 3 sets win over Na Ka Long Anus of Hong Kong. The Indian struggled initially but played some lovely smashes to put the opponent under pressure. At the mid-game break, Long had an 11-8 lead.

After the break, the Hong Kong player looked too strong as Kidambi Srikanth committed unforced errors. The Indian showed great courage to reduce the gap by 3 points. Long won the first game easily at 21-17.

The second game saw Srikanth making aggressive moves and putting his opponent under pressure. He made lots of unforced errors but Indian had a slender 11-10 lead at the interval. After the break, Srikanth showed his class by not allowing his opponent comeback into game-winning it by 21-14 to force the match into the decider.

Srikanth maintained the lead right in deciding the game right from the word go. It was a dominating performance by Indian winning it easily by 21-12 to move into 2nd round. He will face Loh K Y of Singapore.

The women’s doubles pairing of Tressa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand stunned the home favorites Boje and Magelund in two straight games. Indian pair showed their domination putting enough pressure on the opponent with an 11-6 lead at the interval. After the break, it was one-way traffic as Gayatri and Jolly won the first game easily at 21-15.

Gayatri and Jolly maintained so much pressure on the Danish pairing in the second game right from word go taking a 7-0 lead initially. Boje and Magelund showed great courage taking an 11-9 lead at the interval. After the break, the Indian pair handled the pressure well winning 2nd game easily with a scoreline of 21-15 to move into the second round. They will face Thailand pair of Kitthiarkakul and Prajongai.

Lakshya Sen, HS Prannoy, men’s doubles pairing of Satwik and Chirag Shetty, Saina Nehwal will be action in their matches tomorrow.








Srikanth and the women's doubles pair qualify for the second round of the Denmark Open 2022 

 

 

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