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Demark Open LIVE - Day 3 - Sameer Verma beats Anders Antonsen - Updates, Results, Scores, Blog
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Sameer Verma beat Loh Kean Yew of Singapore in the Round of 16 of the Australian Open Super 500 in Sydney on June 13. (Photo credit: Badminton Photo/BWF)
Welcome to The Bridge's LIVE blog from Day 3 of the Denmark Open 2021
The first round is of the Demark Open 2021 is done and dusted and we move into the pre-quarterfinals or the Round of 16 today. Quite a few of the Indians including the husband-wife duo of Parupalli Kashyap-Saina Nehwal and the veteran doubles specialist Ashwini Ponnappa have already been knocked out of contention.
Can the remaining Indians, which includes double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu, former world number 1 Kidambi Srikanth, the rising men's doubles pair of Satwik-Chirag and others keep the Indian flag flying in Denmark?
Stay tuned for all the latest updates.
Live Updates
- 21 Oct 2021 9:16 AM GMT
3-straight points
3 straight points for PV Sindhu and the deficit is now 5-10.
- 21 Oct 2021 9:15 AM GMT
Sindhu continues to struggle
After that explosive start in the first game, Sindhu has struggled badly and the struggle continues. She trails 3-10.
- 21 Oct 2021 9:12 AM GMT
Big LEAD for Busanan
Busanan has raced to a 6-1 lead in the second game. PV Sindhu looking completely out of sorts now. Can the double Olympic Champion bounce back?
- 21 Oct 2021 9:11 AM GMT
Kapila-Reddy EXIT
Dhruv Kapila and Sikki Reddy have surrendered the decider 11-21 and have been knocked out of the Denmark Open 2021. WHAT A SHAME.
They went down 17-21, 21-19, 11-21 to Tang Chun Man and Tse Ying Suet in 48 minutes.
- 21 Oct 2021 9:09 AM GMT
Sindhu trails!
Busanan takes the first two points and leads 2-0 in the second game.
- 21 Oct 2021 9:07 AM GMT
Kapila-Reddy have made a mess out of this
Dhruv Kapila and Sikki Reddy have completely messed up the decider. They trail by 8 points at 9-17.
- 21 Oct 2021 9:06 AM GMT
PV Sindhu takes the first game
This had no business going on for so long. Sindhu was leading 11-2, but the way Busanan fought back is commendable.
Sindhu though manages to stay calm and takes the first game 21-16.
- 21 Oct 2021 9:04 AM GMT
Sindhu hits back!
Consecutive points for PV Sindhu and she leads 19-15 now. Should be easy from here to wrap this up.
- 21 Oct 2021 9:02 AM GMT
Tang-Tse DOMINATION!
The pair from Hong Kong is completely dominating the decider. The lead 11-4 and Kapila-Reddy have no answers.
- 21 Oct 2021 9:00 AM GMT
Just 2 point lead for Sindhu!
PV Sindhu was leading 11-2 at the break. However that lead is now down to just 1 points at 15-14. WHAT A COMEBACK FROM BUSANAN!
