The Indian ace was beaten by former world champion and sixth seed Peter Gade of Denmark in the second round of the badminton singles.
India lost to Denmark 0-3 at the quarter-final stage of the badminton championship.
Former champions P V Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth stayed on course to reclaim titles while a vintage Parupalli Kashyap too regained some form to seal places in the men's singles semi-finals of the US $350,000 India Open badminton, in Delhi, on Friday.
The Bangalore lad beat the fifth seed from Denmark to move into the pre-quarter-finals of the Malaysian Open badminton championships.
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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.
The Indian ace was beaten by Roman Spitko of Germany in the pre-quarter-finals 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.
Aparna Popat entered the main draw after beating Commonwealth Games champion Li Li of Singapore.
Indian duo of Sanave Thomas and Rupesh Kumar brought home the doubles honours.
Defending champion Ajay jayaram reached the quarter-finals of the Dutch Open Grand Prix badminton tournament after notching up an easy straight game win over Norway's Marius Myhre in the men's singles competition, in Almere, Netherlands, on Thursday.
India made a resounding start to their campaign at the Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold with four Indian shuttlers advancing to the second round of the men's singles competition, in Basel, on Wednesday.
Pullela Gopichand only managed to win five points from the two games.
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.
Chetan Anand, Abhinn Shyam Gupta and Nikhil Kanetkar advanced to the second round of the All England Open Badminton tournament.
The Indian ace was beaten by top seed Peter Gade of Denmark in the second round of the tournament.
They next face 7th seed Anders Boesen of Denmark and 15th seed Chunlai Bao of China respectively at the Hong Kong Open.
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But former All England champion Pullela Gopichand, Nikhil Kanetkar and Chetan Anand bowed out of the German Open.\n
The 24-year-old Indian went down to Anders Boesen of Denmark in the last 16.
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In the other semi-final, top seed Lin Dan of China will take on Singapore's Ronald Susilo.\n\n
Chetan Anand, Nikhil Kanetkar, Abhinn Shyam Gupta and Aparna Popat made an exit for the All England Badminton Championships.
Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu suffered another second round defeat when she went down fighting against He Bingjiao of China in the women's singles competition at the $300,000 French Open Super Series badminton tournament in Paris on Friday.
Rasmussen is the second big name missing from the five-day tournament, held a month earlier than usual this year to dovetail with the world championships being staged at the same National Indoor Arena venue in May.
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Defending men's champion Kidambi Srikanth suffered a shock defeat but Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu did not face any trouble as she sailed into the women's singles final with a straight-game victory on an exciting day in Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament in Lucknow on Saturday.
The Indian national champion lost to Jang Young Soo of Korea in at the German Open.
Chetan Anand upset former champion Ong Ewe Hock in the second round before losing in the next.
The former world No. 1 later lashed out at IBF rules which forced him to qualify for the main draw.
HS Prannoy started his campaign at the World Championship in style beating New Zealand's Abhinav Manota in straight games to enter the second 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 men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty continued their impressive run, progressing to the semi-finals with another stunning victory, but it was curtains for Saina Nehwal at the US $700,000 French Open, in Paris, on Friday.
P V Sindhu had things her way before making it to the quarter-finals in the women's singles badminton competition with a 21-13, 21-15 victory over Chinese Taipei's Tai Tzu Ying at the Rio Olympics on Monday night.
World champion Viktor Axelsen of Denmark and Chinese Taipei's No 1 shuttler Tai Tzu Ying will be up for grabs when the high-profile Players' Auction for the lucrative Premier Badminton League gets underway in Hyderabad on Monday.
The Badminton Association of India's disciplinary committee has recommended a life ban on top Indian doubles shuttler Jwala Gutta for trying to stop some players of her franchise Krrish Delhi Smashers from playing a match against Banga Beats in the Indian Badminton League.
Eight seeded Saina defetaed Okuhara 21-15, 21-14 late last night to improve her head-to-head record to 6-1 against her Japanese opponent.
Kidambi Srikanth and H S Prannoy sailed into the pre-quarter-finals, but it was heartbreak for Parupalli Kashyap in the men's singles at the World Badminton Championships in Jakarta on Wednesday.
Former champions P V Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth progressed to the second round in the Yonex-Sunrise India Open badminton scoring contrasting victories, in Delhi, on Wednesday. Si
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