Jan 07, 2025 04:32 PM IST
Malaysia Open: HS Prannoy’s match was halted for over two hours after the stadium roof leaked.
Malaysia Open Tremendous 1000 witnessed weird scenes on Tuesday. First-round matches on Courtroom 2 and Courtroom 3 have been halted after splotches of water began falling from the roof on the Kuala Lumpur venue. The Malaysia Open Tremendous 1000 is 2025’s first large badminton occasion. India shuttler HS Prannoy’s match was additionally affected after water pooled up on his left frontcourt close to the web on Courtroom 3.
Malaysia Open: HS Prannoy’s match was halted for over two hours after the stadium roof leaked. (Screengrab – X )
At that stage, HS Prannoy led towards the Canadian Brian Yang 21-12, 6-3 within the second sport. Within the second sport, HS Prannoy was seen gesturing in the direction of the chair umpire, seemingly saying that the court docket was getting dangerous as bigger splotches have been forming.
The splotches have been shaped on the realm the place a right-handed participant would mainly play his backhand lunge. Prannoy’s coach, Gurusaidutt, was additionally seen getting fairly animated as he warned the participant of the potential danger.
The referee arrived on the court docket quickly and each gamers left after 25 minutes. The organising members have been seen inspecting the leak.
Earlier, there have been issues when Yang performed on the farther aspect. Nonetheless, the play didn’t cease then as courtside officers mopped up the court docket.
HS Prannoy’s match lastly resumed round 4:15 PM IST. The proceedings have been halted for greater than two hours.
Courtroom 2 has extra urgent issues
The state of affairs was grimmer in Courtroom 2. The officers have been seen carrying a number of towels to mop up the court docket. Chinese language Jia Yi Fan and Zhang Shu Xian have been main the house pair of Go Pei Kee and Teoh Mei Xing 11-10 when play needed to be stopped.
Earlier on Tuesday, India’s girls’s doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand defeated Ornnicha Jongsathapornparn and Sukitta Suwachai 21-10, 21-10 in simply half-hour to enter the spherical of 16.
Later within the day, India’s Lakshya Sen will tackle Taiwan’s Y Chi. Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will open their marketing campaign on Wednesday towards Ok Tang and MC Lu of Taiwan.
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