India’s Kidambi Srikanth bowed out of the season- ending BWF World Tour Tests after losing to alternate seeded Malaysian Lee Zii Jia in straight games in his third and final group B match then on Friday The former worldno. 1 Indian was no match for Lee, the reigning All England champion, going down 19-21, 14-21 in 37 twinkles to end his crusade.
It was Srikanth’s alternate loss to the worldno. 8 Malaysian, who had defeated the Indian at Hylo Open in straight games. Srikanth traced 0-3 at the launch but made his way to a slim 9-8 lead at one stage.
An alert Lee, still, assured a two- point advantage at the interval. A six- point burst helped the Indian to again snare a 17-15 lead but he let it slip as Lee pocketed the opening game Srikanth made a good launch in the alternate game, moving to 7-3 advantage but Lee formerly again turned the tables, jumping to 13-9 and kept his nose ahead to ultimately shut the doors on the Indian Double Olympic quarterfinalist PV Sindhu will face Thailand’s Pornpawee Chochuwong latterly in the day while Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy face England’s Chloe Birch and Lauren Smith in women’s doubles.
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