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Denmark Open LIVE - Day 4 - India's campaign ends - Updates, Results, Scores, Blog
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Sameer Verma beat Loh Kean Yew of Singapore in the Round of 16 of the Australian Open Super 500 in Sydney on June 13. (Photo credit: Badminton Photo/BWF)
Welcome to The Bridge's LIVE blog from Day 4 of the Denmark Open 2021.
India went into the Denmark Open 2021 with the third-largest contingent. But, now only two survive. PV SINDHU in women's singles and SAMEER VERMA in men's singles.
Both, Sindhu and Verma will be fighting it out in their quarterfinals today.
Stay tuned for all the latest updates!
Live Updates
- 22 Oct 2021 1:12 PM GMT
Sindhu on backfoot
4 straight points for An, three of which came from unforced errors of Sindhu and the South Korean leads 5-2.
- 22 Oct 2021 1:10 PM GMT
An Se-Young Leads
The South Korean wins two straight points and leads 3-2 now.
- 22 Oct 2021 1:09 PM GMT
First point to Sindhu
Sindhu pockets the first point of the match as Se-young's drop crashes into the net. 1-0.
- 22 Oct 2021 1:06 PM GMT
Sindhu to serve!
The toss is done and PV Sindhu will serve first in the match. The warmups have started.
- 22 Oct 2021 1:03 PM GMT
PV Sindhu is here!
There we have it. PV Sindhu has arrived on court number 1 of the Odense Sports Park, and so is An Seyoung.
The match will begin in the next few minutes and this is going to be an exciting contest with Sindhu eyeing the 2019 revenge.
- 22 Oct 2021 12:40 PM GMT
20 Minutes more!
We have a decider in the Mixed Doubles match on court 1. This means that PV Sindhu's match will happen from in around 20 minutes from now tentatively.
Stay tuned!
- 22 Oct 2021 12:19 PM GMT
Sindhu will be in action soon!
There is a match ongoing in court number 1. Following that would be PV Sindhu.
The double Olympic medallist will be up against South Korea's An Seyoung. While Sindhu is world number 7, Seyoung is ranked 8th!
This is going to be very tricky for Sindhu, who has lost the only encounter between the two in straight games at the very same tournament - the Denmark Open 2019.
- 22 Oct 2021 12:11 PM GMT
Goood Evening!
It is day 4 of the Denmark Open 2021 and only two Indians remain in contention. Both of them in the quarterfinals, and both reached there in contrasting fashion.
While Sindhu had to work hard for her win against Thailand's Busanan in a match that went for 1 hour and 7 minutes, Sameer Verma sprung a surprise late in the night yesterday when he knocked out world number 3 Anders Antonsen in straight games.
But can both of them advance any further? Stay tuned to find out!
