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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 8:03 AM GMT
Momota challenges
That was called long, but it is clearly landed IN. Momota wins a challenge. He trails 8-11.
- 21 Oct 2021 8:02 AM GMT
11-7
Srikanth wins two consecutive points and goes into the mid-game break with a comfortable 11-7 lead.
Momota is slowly getting into his groove and this might get tricky for the Indian soon. Can he maintain this lead and wrap up the first game?
- 21 Oct 2021 8:00 AM GMT
Momota fights back
4 straight points for Momota and the deficit is down to 2. Srikanth leads 9-7.
- 21 Oct 2021 7:58 AM GMT
Momota continues to err
Kento Momota is yet to find his rhythm and continues to make errors. Srikanth leads 8-3.
- 21 Oct 2021 7:56 AM GMT
Terrific start for Srikanth
Kidambi Srikanth continues to dominate. 6 straight points and the lead is 6-1.
- 21 Oct 2021 7:55 AM GMT
Early lead for Srikanth
The Indian has taken an early 4-1, with 4-straight points. Good start!
- 21 Oct 2021 7:53 AM GMT
Srikanth v/s Momota has started
The Round of 16 clash between Momota and Srikanth has begun. The score is 1-1 for now.
- 21 Oct 2021 7:28 AM GMT
Indians in contention
Yet again 7 matches on the day with Indian representation. Kidambi Srikanth and Lakshya Sen have an uphill task going up against Kento Momota and Axelsen respectively.
Srikanth will be the first Indian in action followed by Sindhu. The Indian matches will begin after 1:15pm tentatively
- 21 Oct 2021 7:19 AM GMT
Good Afternooon!
Welcome back to The Bridge's LIVE blog from the Demark Open. It is day 3 and the pre-quarters have started. Carrying India's hopes on the day will the Kidambi Srikanth, PV Sindhu, men's doubles duo of Satwik-Chirag and others.
Srikanth and Sindhu will start off the day for India, playing the second and third match respectively on court number 1 of the Odense Sports Park.
Stay tuned for all the latest updates!
