India’s campaign in the Yonex Sunrise India Open Series ended on Friday with Gurusai Datt and Sourav Verma losing out of their respective quarter final matches. The shock of the day at Siri Fort Indoor Stadium was the ouster of Former World and Olympic Champion Taufik Hidayat who lost his quarter final match to world No. 12 Sung Hwan Park. Apart from Taufik’s ouster no other major upset took place on Friday.
RMV Gurusai Datt was the first of the two Indians to go down this afternoon. Playing against the 8th seed of the tournament Yun Hu, the Indian youngster went down 21-10, 21-16. Guru did well do reach the quarter final in his first ever super series defeating one of the tournaments favorite B.Ponsana in the pre quarter final round. Yun Hu on the other hand had been seeded 8 in the tournament and did not face much trouble ending Gurusai’s campaign in just 35 minutes.
Sourabh Verma who was up against the formidable World No. 1 of Malaysia, Chong Wei Lee went down in 25 minutes. Lee dominated the match right from the start and did not give much chance to the Indian youngster defeating him a straight set 21-7, 21-8. Saurabh was one of the only two Indian players who reach the quarter final, playing his way up from the qualification round.
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