Swiss Open badminton: Sankar Subramanian stuns world No 2 Anders Antonsen in a huge upset in Basel
In the year PV Sindhu won the World Championships in Basel – beating Nozomi Okuhara 21-7, 21-7 in a scarcely believable scoreline – Anders Antonsen lost the men’s singles final 21-9, 21-3 in another result that made no logical sense. And in that very venue in Basel – St. Jakobshalle – Antonsen was at the receiving end of another massive defeat, late on Thursday night. India’s Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian, ranked 64th currently, defeated the current world No 2 Antonsen 18-21, 21-12, 21-5 in a 66-minute contest.
If the second game showed Sankar could push Antonsen to the distance, the decider scoreline was jaw-dropping. Antonsen was struggling with his radar for sure, missing the sidelines repeatedly and often misjudging the length of the shuttle on the backcourt, but it still is a remarkab...