PV Sindhu crashes out of All England Open in first spherical after shedding to lower-ranked Kim Ga-eun

PV Sindhu crashed out of the All England Open Badminton Championships within the first spherical after struggling a 21-19, 13-21, 13-21 loss by the hands of South Korea’s Kim Ga-eun in Birmingham on Wednesday. The 2-time Olympic medallist ended up on the shedding facet regardless of amassing a nervy win within the first recreation towards her lower-ranked opponent.

Kim, who sits 63 locations under Sindhu at 79th within the newest BWF rankings, fought again in type within the first-round battle that lasted somewhat over an hour and didn’t enable Sindhu to search out her rhythm within the subsequent two video games.

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Sindhu leaves Birmingham early for fourth 12 months operating

Sindhu has now had 4 consecutive early exits from the distinguished match that has been in existence since 1899 and has been going down at Area Birmingham since 1994.

Since her semi-final defeat to Thailand’s Pornpawee Chochuwong in 2021, Sindhu has suffered first-round exits in 2023 and within the ongoing version and bowed out within the second spherical in 2022 and 2024.

Since lacking out on podium end within the Paris Olympics after a Spherical of 16 defeat towards China’s He Bingjiao, who would go on to win silver, Sindhu has had quarter-final exits on the Denmark Open and the India Open, the latter marking her first occasion of the 12 months.

And on the Indonesia Masters, she would endure a first-round exit following a straight-games defeat towards Vietnam’s Thuy Linh Nguyen.

Moreover Sindhu, HS Prannoy was the opposite large identify crashing out of the All England Open within the first spherical, the 32-year-old shedding to France’s Toma Junior Popov 21-19, 21-16. Lakshya Sen, who had completed runner-up within the 2022 version after shedding to Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen, progressed to the second spherical after defeating Chinese language Taipei’s Su Li-yang 13-21, 21-17, 21-15.

Sen, who had narrowly missed out on a maiden Olympic medal in Paris after shedding his bronze medal playoff towards Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia, faces Indonesia’s Jonathan Cristie within the Spherical of 16.