Mookerjee bows out in Swiss Open quarters

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Basel (Switzerland): India's Riya Mookerjee crashed out in the women's singles quarterfinals of the Swiss Open badminton tournament with a straight game loss against top seed Chen Yufei of China here Friday.

The unseeded Mookerjee was no match for her fancied Chinese rival, losing 10-21 8-21 in just 25 minutes to bow out of the competition. It was also curtains for Indian mixed doubles pair of Arjun M R and K Maneesha in the quarterfinals.

Arjun and Maneesha lost 19-21 16-21 against Denmark's Mathias Bay-Smidt and Rikke Sob.

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