The Indian ace was beaten by former world champion and sixth seed Peter Gade of Denmark in the second round of the badminton singles.
Saina Nehwal outclassed her Korean rival Jang Soo Young 21-9, 21-14 to win the Indian International badminton tournament.
But Pullela Gopichand, Anup Sridhar, Arvind Bhat and Abhinn Shyam Gupta were shown.
India whitewashed New Zealand 3-0 to enter the quarterfinals of the men's team championship in the Thomas Cup
Indian sportspersons will be in action in the following events at 28th Olympic Games in Athens.
Indian sportspersons will be in action in the following events at 28th Olympic Games in Athens on Monday.
Nikhil Kanetkar and Abhinn Shyam Gupta begin their campaign in the men's badminton tournament.
Saina Nehwal jumped seven spots to reach a career best ranking of 27.
Both went down tamely in the first round of the Malaysian Open badminton championships.
Gopichand failed to offer much resistance, losing to seventh seeded Niels Christian Kaldau of Denmark in straight sets, in the second round.
While Abhinn Shyam Gupta runs into a top-ranked\n\nplayer in the opening round of the Olympics.
The Indian challenge at the Denmark Open badminton tournament ended after Chetan Anand and Nikhil Kanetkar lost in the men's singles at the pre-quarter-final stage.
Nikhil Kanetkar and Chetan Anand entered pre-quarterfinals of the Denmark Open badminton tournament.
The 25-year-old will join Aparna Popat and Abhinn Shyam Gupta in the badminton event at Athens.
Both lost in the quarter-finals but not before scaring their opponents.
Kanetkar beat Russian Evgenij Isakov 15-0, 15-12 at the Bitburger Open badminton tournament.
Pullela Gopichand only managed to win five points from the two games.
Pullela Gopichand and Aparna Popat booked a place in the main draw.
They went down to Japan's Shoji Sato and Huawien Xu of France respectively at the German Open badminton tournament.
National women's champion Aparna Popat moved into the second round of the tournament.
B R Meenakshi and Shruti Kurien will contest the women's final in the NSCI badminton championships.\n\n
Aparna Popat, Abhinn Shyam Gupta and Nikhil Kanetkar are unfancied in the badminton competition at Athens but hope to make a mark with a spirited showing.
But national champion Chetan Anand fell by the wayside in the the Asian Badminton Championships.
Chetan Anand, Abhinn Shyam Gupta and Nikhil Kanetkar advanced to the second round of the All England Open Badminton tournament.
The former beat Nikhil Kanetkar while defending champion Gupta beat SDS Krishna in the Senior National badminton championships.\n\n
Popat lost the opening game but came back strongly to beat Cutsen of Netherlands in the Swiss Open badminton tournament.
Arvind Bhatt failed to keep the momentum and lost his second round match at the All England Open badminton championships.
Chetan Anand, Nikhil Kanetkar and Aparna Popat bowled out in the second round.
The two Indian shuttlers lost their matches at Scottish International Badminton Tournament.
Nikhil Kanetkar, Sachin Ratti and Chetan Anand entered the second round in the Asian Satellite Badminton championships.
But former All England champion Pullela Gopichand, Nikhil Kanetkar and Chetan Anand bowed out of the German Open.\n
Jwalla Gutta and Shruti Kurian were the lone Indians to taste success on the opening day of the World badminton championships.
National champion Abhinn Shyam Gupta meets third seed Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia in the first round.
The chief coach of the Indian badminton team said it could be considered a good achievement if Aparna Popat, Nikhil Kanetkar and Abhinn Shyam Gulta make the last eight stage.
Chetan Anand, Nikhil Kanetkar, Abhinn Shyam Gupta and Aparna Popat made an exit for the All England Badminton Championships.
The Indian badminton ace beat Andreas Wolk of Germany to win the Volant d'or Toulouse Open Badminton tournament.\n\n
Abhinn Shyam Gupta, Chetan Anand, Nikhil Kanetkar and Aparna lost in the first round.
The Indian youngster had to dig deep into his reserves to get the better of Swedish No 2 Daniel Erickson in the third round before making the grade.\n\n
The discontent with the Indian Badminton League has almost come to an end as men's doubles specialists Sanave Thomas and Rupesh Kumar have decided to compete in the franchise-based tournament.
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