Birmingham: India's campaign at the All&nbsp;England Badminton Championships came to a disappointing end&nbsp;with Saina Nehwal, B Sai Praneeth, Kidambi Srikanth and&nbsp;Sameer Verma all exiting from the tournament, here today.
<img title="Saina Nehwal. Pic/Getty Images" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2016/mar/12Saina-Nehwal-1.jpg" alt="Saina Nehwal. Pic/Getty Images" /> Saina Nehwal. Pic/Getty Images
World no. 2 and second seed Saina was India's lone hope&nbsp;after the exits of the tio of Praneeth, Srikanth and Verma in&nbsp;the second round of the men's singles event.&nbsp;
But the London Olympics bronze medallist, Sania, failed&nbsp;to live up to her billing and was stunned by Tai Tzu Ying of&nbsp;Chinese Taipei 15-21 16-21 in the quarterfinals of the women's&nbsp;singles event to drew curtains to India's campaign at the&nbsp;tournament.
Earlier, Praneeth, who had stunned two-time Olympic&nbsp;silver medallist and former World No. 1 Lee Chong Wei of&nbsp;Malaysia in the opening round, lost to Hans-Kristian&nbsp;Vittinghus of Denmark in a three-setter to bow out of the&nbsp;prestigious tournament.
The Indian raised visions of another upset win as he took&nbsp;the first set but later fizzled out in the subsequent two to&nbsp;lose the match 21-12 11-21 16-21.&nbsp;
The highest ranked Indian Srikanth was no match for&nbsp;fourth seed Kento Momota of Japan as he lost 10-21 13-21 in a&nbsp;lopsided match.
Qualifier Sameer Verma put a good fight before losing to&nbsp;eighth seed Tian Houwei of China in a three-setter. Just like&nbsp;Praneeth, Verma took the first set but squandered the&nbsp;advantage as he lost 21-10 12-21 19-21.
P V Sindhu had crashed out of the women's singles in the&nbsp;first round itself. The women's doubles team of Jwala Gutta&nbsp;and Ashwini Ponnappa had also made an exit in the opening&nbsp;round while the men's doubles duo of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth&nbsp;Reddy did the same.

India's campaign at the All&nbsp;England Badminton Championships came to a disappointing end&nbsp;with Saina Nehwal, B Sai Praneeth, Kidambi Srikanth and&nbsp;Sameer Verma all exiting from the tournament, here today

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