Former World No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth from the current US Open Badminton Tournament

The top Indian Shuttler Kidambi Srikanth suffered a defeat in the first round of the men’s singles event of the US Open 2025 Badminton tournament. According to Olympic.com, the former world no. 1 Srikanth, who is currently on the 50th position on the Badminton rankings and eighth place for the BWF Super 300 tournament, which lost to the 77th position of England on Wednesday, by 21-19, 12-21, 21-14. After his inspirational performance at Malaysia Masters last month, where he became the second person in history to make the final of the BWF Super 500 event after starting with a qualifier, Srikanth was shocked, despite the fact that he was 18-16 ahead on Wednesday. The Indian Badminton player returned to the second game and forced the decisive match, but lost the match in less than an hour. Srikanth’s compatriots Priyanshu Rajawat, Shankar Subramaniam and Ritwik Sanjeev Satish Kumar also couldn’t cross the first round of obstacle in the men’s singles. The World Number 38 and the sixth seed rajawat were defeated by the 54th number chain of Chinese Taipei’s 54th number chain 10-21, 21-12, 7-21. At the same time, Ritwik Sanjeev Saathe Kumar 21-18, 21-12 lost to France’s Enog Roy. Subramaniam was defeated by Chinese Taipei’s Zhuo-Fu Lio 21-13 21-19. However, Ayush Shetty and Tharan Mannapalli reached the second round, where they would be face to face. The fourth seed Shetty, 34th number in the world and the best Indian male player in Iowa defeated Denmark’s Magnus Johanson 21-17, 21-19 in their round of 32 games, while Mananapalli came from behind and defeated France’s Arnod Mercale 19-21, 21-18, 21-18. In the women’s singles, Anmol Kharb also returned after falling behind a match and defeating the Tereza Swabikova of Czech Republic 16-21, 21-13, 21-19, while the entry of Acharya Kashyap was very easy in the second round, as he defeated Chinese Taipe 21-19 21-10 in just 34 minutes. World Number 66, Tanvi Sharma defeated Guayen Thui Linh of Vietnam 21-19 21-9 in a straight game to upset. The qualifying Ira Sharma also reached the round of 16 after retiring during the third game of her rival Chinese Taipei’s Yi-Tting Hung. The campaign of Tanya Hemnath and Sriyanshi Valishetti ended quickly. Hemnath lost a match with three games against Amali Shulz of Denmark, while Valishetti lost in a straight match against Ukraine’s seventh seed Polyina Buharova. In the mixed doubles, Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Cresto were eliminated in the early stages when the 17th-seeded Indian pair of Chinese Taipei’s pair of U Chih Lynn and U 21-17, 16–21, 17-21 lost. Ayush Aggarwal and Shruti Mishra’s Guatemala pair of late entry Christopher Alexander Martinez Salvador and Diana Corleto Soto, with 2-15, 15-21, 21-16 defeat using 2-15, 21-16, along with the journey of India in the mixed double bolt in the US finish.