Indian shuttler Kiran George bowed out in the men\u2019s singles pre-quarterfinals after losing to Hong Kong\u2019s Jason Gunawan, while young Tharun Mannepalli advanced to the second round after his opponent Kenta Nishimoto retired in the decider at the Swiss Open here.<\/p>\n
George fought hard but lost 18-21, 21-16, 16-21 in a round-of-16 match, lasting 70 minutes.<\/p>\n
India\u2019s men\u2019s doubles pair of Hariharan Amsakarunan and M.R. Arjun also lost in the pre-quarterfinals, bowing out to Chen Cheng Kuan and Lin Bing-Wei of Chinese Taipei 17-21, 11-21 in 32 minutes.<\/p>\n
The ace Indian men\u2019s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will take on Japan\u2019s Hiroki Okamura and Kyohei Yamashita in a pre-quarterfinal match later in the night.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old Mannepalli, ranked 43rd in the world, was leading 16-21 21-16 7-2 when the fifth-seeded Nishimoto retired from the round of 32 match on Wednesday night due to a shoulder issue.<\/p>\n
Mannepalli, who had reached the semifinals of the Macau Open last year, will next face Malaysia\u2019s Justin Hoh.<\/p>\n
In women\u2019s singles, Malvika Bansod failed to get past Thailand\u2019s world No. 4 Pornpawee Chochuwong, going down 11-21 15-21 in a lop-sided contest. It was her fourth defeat in as many meetings against the Thai player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indian shuttler Kiran George bowed out in the men\u2019s singles pre-quarterfinals after losing to Hong Kong\u2019s Jason Gunawan,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18638,18639,18640,18641,18642,18643,18644,18645,18646,15471,41,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-31003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-badmintonnews","9":"tag-indianbadminton","10":"tag-jasongunawan","11":"tag-kirangeorge","12":"tag-malvikabansod","13":"tag-pornpaweechochuwong","14":"tag-sportsupdate","15":"tag-swissopen","16":"tag-tharunmannepalli","17":"tag-badminton","18":"tag-swiss","19":"tag-switzerland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116218366842004046","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}