Odense:&nbsp;On an extremely bad for India at the&nbsp;Denmark Open, top seed Saina Nehwal suffered a shock second&nbsp;round defeat while Kidambi Srikanth also failed to clear the&nbsp;second round in men's singles of the USD 650,000 Super Series&nbsp;Premier event, here today.
Also making an exit was men's doubles pair of Manu Attri&nbsp;and B Sumeeth Reddy.
World number one Saina lost 18-21 13-21 to world number&nbsp;18 from Japan Minatsu Mitani in 39 minutes in the women's&nbsp;singles second round.
World No. 5 Srikanth, who had a 1-1 record against Tommy&nbsp;Sugiarto of Indonesia coming into the match, failed to come up&nbsp;with his best game and lost 15-21 17-21 in the men's singles&nbsp;second round.
Top Indian men's doubles pair of Manu and Sumeeth, who&nbsp;reached the finals of Dutch Open last week, put up a brave&nbsp;fight before going down 19-21 22-20 19-21 to eight seeds Lee&nbsp;Sheng Mu and Tsai Chia Hsin of Chinese Taipei.
Last night, H S Prannoy went down fighting against Hsu&nbsp;Jen Hao of Chinese Taipei in the opening round.&nbsp;
World No 16 Prannoy, who had lost to Hao at the 2011&nbsp;Bulgarian International, could not exert enough pressure on&nbsp;his opponent and suffered a 21-23 21-19 15-21 loss in a men's&nbsp;singles match that lasted an hour and 21 minutes.&nbsp;
Prannoy had dominated most part of the opening game as he&nbsp;led 7-3 early on and even though Hao wrested control for a&nbsp;brief time at 13-12, the Indian grabbed the lead immediately&nbsp;with a four-point burst to move to 17-13 and then held three&nbsp;game points at 20-17.
But Prannoy squandered the lead as Hao surpassed him with&nbsp;four straight points to move to 21-20 and then sealed the game&nbsp;with two more points.
Bolstered by the first game, World No. 24 Hao came into&nbsp;his own in the second and led right from the start to be 15-11&nbsp;at one stage.
Prannoy, however, had other plans as he caught up with&nbsp;his rival after reeling off four points and after an intense&nbsp;battle managed to pocket the second game with three points&nbsp;straight from 18-19.
In the decider, Prannoy zoomed ahead to a 4-0 lead&nbsp;initially but Hao clawed back at 6-6 and after a battle of supremacy, he broke off from 13-13 to eventually seal the&nbsp;issue in his favour.
In Chinese Taipei Grand Prix tournament, 13th seed Indian&nbsp;Sameer Verma lost to Thailand's Khosit Phetpradab 17-21 23-21&nbsp;12-21 in men's singles opening round at the Hsing Chuang&nbsp;Gymnasium.

On an extremely bad for India at the&nbsp;Denmark Open, top seed Saina Nehwal suffered a shock second&nbsp;round defeat while Kidambi Srikanth also failed to clear the&nbsp;second round in men's singles of the USD 650,000 Super Series&nbsp;Premier event

Denmark Open: Saina, Srikanth, Prannoy, Manu-Sumeeth lose

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On an extremely bad for India at the&nbsp;Denmark Open, top seed Saina Nehwal suffered a shock second&nbsp;round defeat while Kidambi Srikanth also failed to clear the&nbsp;second round in men's singles of the USD 650,000 Super Series&nbsp;Premier event

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