India Open: Kidambi Srikanth bows out after losing to Viktor Axelsen | Badminton News – Times of India
NEW DELHI: Top Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth's poor run continued as he went down in straight games to Olympic and world champion Viktor Axelsen in his opening men's singles match at the Yonex-Sunrise India Open Super 750 tournament on Wednesday.Srikanth squandered a 14-5 lead in the second game after losing the opening game to go down 14-21, 19-21 to the world number 1, leaving the cheering fans at the IG stadium disappointed.With the crowd rooting for him, Srikanth, a former world no.1, started dominating the rallies, extracting mistakes from Axelsen. The Indian tried to lunge his opponent forward, using his strokes to move the tall Dane.However, Axelsen was caught up at 8-8 and then with a round head smash took a three-point lead at the break.At 13-9, Axelsen committed a rare serv...