Mulheim an der Ruhr (Germany): India's Ashwini Ponnappa and her partner Vladimir Ivanov bowed out of the German Open Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament following defeat against third seeds Chris and Gabrielle Adcock, here yesterday.


Ashwini Ponnappa. Pic/Shadab Khan 

The unseeded Indo-Russian combine went down fighting 19-21 15-21 to the British pair in the mixed doubles second round, which lasted 37 minutes at the RWE-Sporthalle.