Bird droppings halt India Open match on Day 3
NEW DELHI, Jan. 16 -- The India Open - the country's biggest badminton event - is getting embroiled in one controversy after the other. Two days after Danish shuttler Mia Blichfeldt complained of birds and bird droppings on the practice courts of the KD Jadhav Indoor Hall, bird droppings halted a men's singles match of the Super 750 event, not once but twice, at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium.
With India's HS Prannoy leading 16-14 in the opening game of his second round match against former world champion Loh Kean Yew of Singapore, play was stopped as both the shuttlers approached the net to look at something that had dropped from the ceiling. "It was bird shit which kind of halted the game," Prannoy said after the match.
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