Singapore Open 2018: Indian shuttlers end campaign to cap off disappointing tournament

Singapore: The Indian badminton team, including its best bet Sourabh Verma, bowed out of the Singapore Open after a dismal outing on Thursday. [caption id=“attachment_4778341” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] File image of Badminton player Sourabh Verma. Image courtesy: Twitter @BAI_Media[/caption] Verma lost to Vietnam’s Tien Minh Nguyen 21-18 15-21 11-21 in 56 minutes in a men’s singles match. Rituparna Das was show the exit door by Yulia Yosephin Susanto of Indonesia 21-15 13-21 16-21 in a women’s singles second round match. The mixed doubles pair of India Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponappa lost 21-14 16-21 21-14 to Honng Kong’s seventh seeded Lee Chun Hei Reginald and Chau Hoi Wah. Ruthvika Shivani succumbed 8-21 15-21 to Japanese fifth seed Sayaka Takahashi in another women’s singles second round match. Subhankar Dey, too, lost in straight games to Chinese Taipei’s top seed Tien Chen Chou 13-21 14-21. The men’s doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, seeded second, lost to China’s Ou Xuanyi and Xiangyu Ren 17-21 18-21.