Copenhagen, Oct. 14 -- India's string of poor performances at the ongoing Denmark Open 2026 badminton tournament continued as the popular men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty also suffered a shocking first round exit on Wednesday.

The fifth-ranked pair went down to the world number 37 pair of He Jiting-Ren Xiangyu from China by 12-21, 21-15, 21-19, as per Olympics.com.

Earlier, PV Sindhu, the two-time Olympic medalist and Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen also suffered first-round losses on Tuesday in the BWF Super 750 tournament.

Satwik-Chirag won the first game easily, but in the second game, the Chinese pair took an 11-4 lead at the interval and eventually forced a decider. The final game was close, ...