BASEL (Switzerland): Indian shuttler B Sai Praneeth settled for a runner-up finish on the Swiss Open after losing the boys's singles final to best seed and world quantity two Shi Yuqi on Sunday.
Playing his first final in nearly two years, World No 22 Praneeth misplaced 21-19, 18-21, 12-21 to the Chinese in the summit conflict, which lasted 68 minutes.
The last time Praneeth featured in a last was when he clinched the Thailand Open name in June 2017.
Praneeth did neatly to win the opening recreation despite Yuqi making an excellent comeback from 12-18 to 19-19.
After a neck-and neck battle till 9-9, Praneeth reeled off six straight points to open up a 15-9 lead. He then kept transferring forward to make it 18-12 but the Chinese controlled to earn four points on the trot to reduce the distance earlier than catching Praneeth at 19-19.
The Indian, alternatively, held his nerves to win the following two an important points, sealing the opening recreation.
The 2d recreation turned out to be a closely-fought affair as the sport tilted from one finish to any other. The most effective time the Indian may have fancied his probabilities was when he bagged four consecutive points to transport up 13-10 but quickly the Chinese stuck up with him and made it 15-15.
It went on like that till 18-18 earlier than Yuqi earned 3 straight points to take the fit to the decider.
In the third and final recreation, Praneeth, who had a gruelling fit towards world quantity five and reigning Olympic champion Chen Long in the semifinals on Saturday, ran out of steam and went down tamely.
Although the third recreation was additionally fought closely initially with both the avid gamers tied at Four-Four, the Chinese received 3 points to take 7-Four lead.
But from thereon, Yuqi did not glance again as he persisted to march forward and widened the distance. The Chinese ultimately bagged the sport and the fit somewhat conveniently.
Playing his first final in nearly two years, World No 22 Praneeth misplaced 21-19, 18-21, 12-21 to the Chinese in the summit conflict, which lasted 68 minutes.
The last time Praneeth featured in a last was when he clinched the Thailand Open name in June 2017.
Praneeth did neatly to win the opening recreation despite Yuqi making an excellent comeback from 12-18 to 19-19.
After a neck-and neck battle till 9-9, Praneeth reeled off six straight points to open up a 15-9 lead. He then kept transferring forward to make it 18-12 but the Chinese controlled to earn four points on the trot to reduce the distance earlier than catching Praneeth at 19-19.
The Indian, alternatively, held his nerves to win the following two an important points, sealing the opening recreation.
The 2d recreation turned out to be a closely-fought affair as the sport tilted from one finish to any other. The most effective time the Indian may have fancied his probabilities was when he bagged four consecutive points to transport up 13-10 but quickly the Chinese stuck up with him and made it 15-15.
It went on like that till 18-18 earlier than Yuqi earned 3 straight points to take the fit to the decider.
In the third and final recreation, Praneeth, who had a gruelling fit towards world quantity five and reigning Olympic champion Chen Long in the semifinals on Saturday, ran out of steam and went down tamely.
Although the third recreation was additionally fought closely initially with both the avid gamers tied at Four-Four, the Chinese received 3 points to take 7-Four lead.
But from thereon, Yuqi did not glance again as he persisted to march forward and widened the distance. The Chinese ultimately bagged the sport and the fit somewhat conveniently.
Swiss Open: Sai Praneeth goes down fighting against Shi Yuqi in final
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March 18, 2019
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