India\u2019s Kiran George produced one of biggest upsets at the Swiss Open badminton championships as he stunned former world champion Loh Kean Yew of Singapore the opening round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 42nd<\/sup> ranked shuttler edged out the third seeded Kean Yew 23-21, 21-19 after a 41-minute encounter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the opening game, Kiran saved two game points, while in the second, Kean Yer nearly completed a superb comeback from 16-20 down before Kiran sealed the contest on his fourth match point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kiran will take on Hong Kong\u2019s Jason Gunawan, who knocked out former World No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth 21-15, 12-21, 4-21 in his match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Second seeded Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei was also given a rude awakening in the opening round, as he was shown the exit by China\u2019s Wang Zhengxing. The Chinese player came back from a game down to defeat Tien Chen 14-21, 21-16, 21-10 in a match that lasted 64-minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Top seeded Le Shifeng of China, was given a fright by unseeded Indonesian Moh Zaki Ubaidillah before slogging out a 84-minute 24-22, 16-21, 21-16 win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two players rebuilding their career after injuries \u2013 Lee Zii Jia of Malaysia and Anthony Sinisuka Ginting of Indonesia \u2013 had contrasting fortunes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Zii Jia was beaten 12-21, 14-21 by Singapore\u2019s Jason The Jia Heng while Anthony picked up a morale boosting 21-11, 21-17 win over Taiwanese veteran Wang Tzu Wei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fifth seeded Kenta Nishimoto of Japan had to withdraw injured from his match while trailing 21-16, 16-21, 2-7 to India\u2019s Tharun Mannepalli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Canadian Michelle Li, seeded fourth in the women\u2019s singles was also shown an early exit. She lost her opening match 18-21, 16-21 to Japan\u2019s Nozomi Okuhara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Women\u2019s doubles top seeds Liu Shengshu-Tan Ning are also out of the competition. The Chinese pair retired while trailing 14-18 in their opening match against the Taiwanese duo of Lin Chih-Chun-Yang Chu Yun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the mixed doubles, fourth seeds Jesper Toft-Amalie Magelund of Denmark were beaten 21-15, 21-14 by unheralded Dhruv Kapila-Tanisha Crasto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" India\u2019s Kiran George produced one of biggest upsets at the Swiss Open badminton championships as he stunned former<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-10454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-badminton"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t