The Indian challenge at the Korean Open Superseries badminton event ended Thursday when Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa lost in the women's doubles second round.
Commonwealth Games gold medallist pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa today suffered a straight-game defeat in the third round of the women's doubles competition to crash out of USD 600,000 Korea Open Super Series badminton tournament here today.
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Jwala Gutta
The world championship bronze medallist combo of Gutta and Ponnappa lost 18-21 12-21 to third seeded Korean pair of Ye Na Jang and So Young Kim in a 40-minute contest.
Ponnappa also suffered a heartbreak at the mixed doubles competition when she along with her partner Tarun Kona lost 10-21 15-21 to seventh seeded German combo of Michael Fuchs and Birgit Michels in another 31 minute match.
With these losses, Indian campaign ended at the Korea Open as singles shuttlers had suffered disappointing defeats in the first round itself.
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