That's all from us!
India's last remaining player exits the tournament.It's not been a good day for the Indians, with Kidambi Srikanth losing his match against Kento Momota 9-21, 11-21 and PV Sindhu losing to Chen Yufei 11-21, 21-11, 15-21.
11-8 to Chen Yufei!
Despite making a couple of service errors, Chen Yufei enters the mid-game break with a lead of three points. PV Sindhu has failed to find the form she had towards the end of the second game, and she's edging closer to elimination from the competition at the moment, as Yufei relentlessly piles on the pressure,
4-3 to Sindhu!
The third game has looked more of an even contest so far, with both shuttlers doing their best to outwit the other and reach the semi-finals.Sindhu has been edging it, but Chen Yufei looks more involved than she did in the second game, where she was a passive spectator at times
11-8 to Sindhu!
PV Sindhu heads into the mid-game break in the lead! The Indian has done well to regain her composure, but Chen Yufei is not making it easy for her. Every single point so far has been hard-fought, and Sindhu will need to keep up the intensity if she wants to win the second game and restore parity.
Round of 16 results: India's singles shuttlers Kidambi Srikanth and PV Sindhu advanced while mixed doubles and men's doubles pairs bowed out of the $1 million China Open World Tour Super 1000 tournament on Thursday.
Srikanth defeated Suppanyu Avihingsanon of Thailand 21-12, 15-21, 24-22 in a marathon match which lasted around an hour while Rio Olympic silver medallist Sindhu edged past Thailand's Busanan Ongbamrungphan 21-23, 21-13, 21-18 in another match.
In mixed doubles category, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa bowed out of the meet, losing to Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong of China 14-21, 11-21 in straight games while second pair Pranaav Jerry Chopra and N. Sikki Reddy lost to Mathias Christiansen Christinna Pedersen of Denmark.
It was the end of roads for the men's doubles pair of Manu Attri and B. Sumeeth Reddy as they lost their match to Chen Hung Ling and Wang Chi-Lin of Chinese Taipei 9-21, 10-21 to crash out.
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