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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 3:21 PM GMT
Close start
This is a very close start. Both the pairs are moving toe to toe. 4-4 is the score.
- 21 Oct 2021 3:19 PM GMT
The match has started
Kapila-MR pocket the first point of the match, but the Indonesians hit back soon after. 1-1 for now.
- 21 Oct 2021 3:11 PM GMT
Arjun-Dhruv out on court!
There we have it! Arjun MR and Dhruv Kapila are out on court number 3. They will face the World Number 7 pair of Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Ardianto.
A tough ask for Kapila and MR. Can they spring a surprise? Well, we will know in a bit.
- 21 Oct 2021 2:35 PM GMT
45* minutes more!
We are in for a long delay - 45 minutes more tentatively, with some close matches being played out on both courts. Four Indian matches still remaining for the day.
Court 1 - Lakshya Sen v/s Vicktor Axelsen
Court 1 - Sameer Verma v/s Anders Antonsen
Court 3 - MR Arjun-Dhruv Kapila v/s Alfian-Ardianto
Court 3 - Satwik-Chirag v/s Goh-Nur
- 21 Oct 2021 1:50 PM GMT
The wait continues!
We have two more matches on Court number 1 before Lakshya Sen strides out, while there is one more match remaining on court number 3 before we have the men's doubles duo of Dhruv Kapila and Arjun MR in action.
Do not think we are going to have the Indian action start before 8 PM IST. Stay tuned!
- 21 Oct 2021 9:57 AM GMT
4 Matches Remain!
4 More matches remain on the day for India. 2 Men's Singles and 2 Men's Doubles. And all those matches will be held post 7:15 pm IST tentatively.
Stay tuned!
- 21 Oct 2021 9:55 AM GMT
PV SINDHU WINS
WHAT A WIN FOR PV SINDHU.
She defeats Busanan of Thailand 21-16, 12-21, 21-15 in a match that lasted 1 hour and 7 minutes. Sindhu started off well is an understatement. She led 11-2 in the first game before Busanan fought back.
The double Olympic medallist looked completely down and out at the end of the second game. Her coach was worried, so were the fans. But, Sindhu did what champions do the best.
She thrived under the pressure of the decider and the Thai had no chance as Sindhu stormed her way into the Quarterfinals of the Denmark Open 2021!
- 21 Oct 2021 9:52 AM GMT
6 MATCH POINTS
3-straight points for Busanan, but she soon hits one way wide. 6 MATCH POINTS for Sindhu at 20-14.
- 21 Oct 2021 9:50 AM GMT
Consecutive points for Busanan
Not so easy, says the Thai as she pockets consecutive points. 19-13 lead for Sindhu.
- 21 Oct 2021 9:49 AM GMT
8-point lead
Sindhu ups the pace of the game and leads 19-11 now. Should be easy win now.
