Indonesia Masters: Kidambi Srikanth, Sourabh Verma crash out in opening round
Kidambi Srikanth went down to local favourite Shesar Hiren Rhustavito 21-18, 12-21, 14-21 in a match lasting one hour and three minutes.
After finishing runner-up in the just concluded Syed Modi International, Indian shuttler Sourabh Verma on Tuesday achieved a career-best ranking of world number 29 in the latest BWF ranking.
Sourabh had a great season where he bagged two BWF Super 100 titles at Hyderabad and Vietnam besides winning the Slovenia International series in May.
On Sunday, Sourabh, a three-time national champion, lost to Taiwan’s Wang Tzu Wei in the Syed Modi badminton final.
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Woman shuttler Ashmita Chaliha too, made a great jump of 18 spots to enter into the top 100.
Kidambi Srikanth and B Sai Praneeth remained static at world no 12 and 11 respectively.
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