Srikanth, Lakshya bow out

Kidambi Srikanth. Pic/AFP

India's ace shuttlers Kidambi Srikanth and Lakshya Sen bowed out of the French Open Super 750 tournament after losing their respective men's singles matches here on Wednesday. The first to take to the court at the Glaz Arena was Srikanth, who was shown the door by Toma Junior Popov of France.

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Srikanth lost the Round of 32 match 17-21, 15-21. Soon after, it was Lakshya's turn to suffer as he went down 15-21, 18-21 to Arnaud Merkle, who is also from France and had lost to the Indian in their last meeting way back in 2016 when they were competing in juniors.

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