Badminton News: Talented Indian shuttler Ashmita Chaliha's impressive run came to an end, losing two straight matches to local player Supanida Katethong in the women's singles semi-final of the Thailand Masters Super 300 tournament in Bangkok on Saturday.

The 24-year-old from Guwahati suffered a 13-21 12-21 defeat against the world no. 17 Supanida in a 35 minute match.

The battle between the two left-handed badminton players turned out to be one-sided as Supanida took a comfortable 8-3 lead and won the opening match. The second game had a similar story as Ashmita managed to take a 6-7 lead before falling short as Supanida scored nine of the next 10 points to put the match out of the Indian's reach.

Ashmita Chaliha's defeat ended the Indian badminton team's participation in the 2024 Thailand Masters. Earlier, however, sixth seed in the Treesa/Gayatri doubles narrowly lost to fourth seed Febriana Dwipuji Kusuma/Amallia Cahaya Pratiwi of Indonesia 12-21, 21-17. , 21-23 in the match. The final eight lasted one hour and seven minutes.

In men's singles, national champion and world ranking. 63 Manjunath lost to Dutchman Mark Caljouw 19-21, 15-21 in 43 minutes in the quarter-finals of the Thailand Masters 2024.

Former world number one Kidambi Srikanth opened his campaign at the Thailand Masters badminton tournament with a straight loss to Chinese Taipei's Wang Tzu Wei on Wednesday.

Indian players will now focus on preparing for the European Tour which will take place at the end of this month to compete for valuable points in the Paris 2024 Olympic qualifiers.

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