India out of Sudriman Cup 2023, Malaysia made quarter finals

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Sujo : India crashed out of the Sudriman Cup mixed team championship with a one-sided defeat against Malaysia in their second Group C match here on Monday. Star players Kidambi Srikanth and PV Sindhu failed to live up to expectations, ending India’s challenge at the prestigious tournament. In the men’s singles event, where Srikanth committed a lot of unforced errors, Sindhu lost against world number 30 Goh Jin Wei despite winning the first game. In the first match, the mixed doubles pair of Dhruv Kapila and Ashwini Ponnappa had a tough challenge to defeat the pair of Goh Sun Huat and Lee Shewon Jamie, but the Indian pair lost 16-21, 17-21 in 35 minutes.

Srikanth then suffered a string of unforced errors in the men’s singles competition and went down 16-21, 11-21 in a one-sided match against world number eight Li Ji Jia, leaving India 0-2 behind. World No.12 Sindhu then came back from 2-11 down in the first game against Goh but lost the match 21-14, 10-21, 20-22, leaving India 0-3 in the five-match series. lagged behind , With the loss, India finished third in Group C while Chinese Taipei and Malaysia qualified for the quarter-finals as the top two teams.