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Indian shuttlers Unnati Hooda and Malvika Bansod were ousted from the Thailand Open after suffering straight game defeats to higher-ranked players in the second round of the Super 500 tournament on Thursday.

 

Unnati, the 2022 Odisha Masters and 2023 Abu Dhabi Masters winner, proved no match for World Number 2 top seed Pornpawee Chochuwong from Thailand, going down 14-21, 11-21 in just 39 minutes.

 

World number 23 Malvika, a runner-up at the 2024 Hylo Open, too found the going tough against former world champion and Thai veteran Ratchanok Intanon.

 

She went down 12-16-21 to the World Number 5 shuttler in their second-round women’s singles fixture of the US $475,000 tournament.