The Indian womenโs doubles pair of Rutaparna Panda and Swetaparna Panda suffered a straight-game defeat to Kokona Ishikawa and Maiko Kawazoe of Japan to crash out in the opening round of the Japan Open Super 750 badminton tournament on Tuesday.
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Rutaparna and Swetaparna, ranked 39th, were no match for the Japanese pair of Ishikawa and Kawazoe, who dominated the contest right from the word and won the match 21-13, 21-7 in just 32 minutes.
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India’s top shuttlers, including double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu, Lakshya Sen and the menโs doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, will be in action in the tournament on Wednesday.
