March 5, 2014 2:13 PM

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All England Badminton: Pawar,Gutta,Ponnappa out

Indian men's singles player Anand Pawar and women's doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa crashed out of the All England badminton Championship at Birmingham.In the qualifying round, Anand squandered a one-game advantage to go down fighting against Indonesia's Andre Kurniawan Tedjono, 21-18 13-21 19-21. Commonwealth Games Gold medallist pair of Jwala and Ashwini beat by Chinese combo of Jin Ma and Yuanting Tang, 21-14 15-21 17-21.Among others, Indian woman shuttler Saili Rane was defeated by Ireland's Chloe Magee 21-23, 20-22 in a women's singles qualifying match. In mixed doubles pair of Abhishek Ahlawat and Kristi Das also failed to enter the main draw of the Championship. Top Indian shuttlers, including Saina Nehwal, Parupalli Kashyap, K Srikanth, P Sindhu and mixed doubles combo of Tarun Kona and Ashwini Ponnappa will play in the main draw later today.

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