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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 3:44 PM GMT
4-point lead!
The Indians have now doubled their post the break. 15-11. Is this heading towards a decider?
- 21 Oct 2021 3:41 PM GMT
No, they cant!
Instead, it is Arjun MR-Dhruv Kapila who go into the break with a lead. A slender 11-9 advantage for the Indians. Can they capitalise?
- 21 Oct 2021 3:38 PM GMT
7-7
Nothing to separate both pairs until now in the second game. But, this is the point where Muhammad-Fajar took the lead in the first game. Can they do it again?
- 21 Oct 2021 3:35 PM GMT
Another tight start
Kapila-MR have yet again done a decent job at the start. 3-3.
- 21 Oct 2021 3:32 PM GMT
21-15
That's it. The Indonesians take the first game rather easily in the end. It started off closely with the scores tied at 7-7, but Muhammad-Fajar opened up an 11-7 lead out of nowhere. It was just a mere formality post the break.
Can Arjun MR and Dhruv Kapila come up with something better?
- 21 Oct 2021 3:29 PM GMT
6-point lead
Muhammad-Fajar lead 18-12. Do not think Arjun-Dhruv can catch up now. The first game is done for good.
- 21 Oct 2021 3:27 PM GMT
Exchange of points
Just some casual exchange of points after the break. Indonesia leads 14-10.
- 21 Oct 2021 3:25 PM GMT
11-7
4 straight points for Muhammad-Fajar and they go into the break with a comfortable 11-7 lead. Can't really point out what went wrong for Kapila-MR all of a sudden.
- 21 Oct 2021 3:24 PM GMT
Indonesia opens up a lead!
The Indonesians open up a 9-7 lead. First time the deadlock has really been broken in this match.
