Saarbrucken (Germany), Oct 27 (PTI) Indian women’s singles player Meghana Reddy Mareddy, and the men’s doubles pair of Achutaditya Rao Doddavarapu and Arjun Reddy Pochana failed to reach the main draw of the USD 500,000 Hylo Open Super 500 badminton tournament after losing their respective qualifying round matches here on Tuesday.
Maghana lost to Ranithma Liyanage of Sri Lanka 9-21 10-21 in 27 minutes, while the Achutaditya-Arjun duo went down fighting 9-21 22-20 11-21 to Switzerland’s Yann Orteu and Minh Quang Pham in a match that lasted 50 minutes.
Two-time Olympic medallist P V Sindhu, who had finished runner-up at the French Open last week, takes on Turkey’s Neslihan Arin in the women’s singles opening round.
Ashmita Chaliha, Devika Sihag, Aakarshi Kashyap, Malvika Bansod and Unnati Hooda will also be competing in the women’s singles main draw.
Lakshya Sen, H S Prannoy, Kiran George and Tharun Mannepalli will compete in the men’s singles. PTI PDS PDS UNG
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