Indian shuttlers once again endured a poor start after the country's challenge ended in both women's and mixed doubles competitions of the Denmark Open Super 750 tournament on Wednesday.
Both the Indian pairs is action -- Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand (women's doubles) and B Summeth Reddy and N Sikki Reddy (mixed doubles) -- suffered heartbreak three-game defeats in their opening contests.
Taking the court first, Treesa and Gayatri squandered a game lead to go down 21-19 17-21 15-21 against fifth seed Malaysia combination of Pearly Tan and Muralitharan Thinaah in women's doubles opening round match that lasted one hour and 14 minutes.
The odds were always against the world no.21 Indian duo as it enjoyed a inferior 1-5 head-to-head record against their world no.7 opponents from Malaysia.