TOKYO: Indian shuttler Tarun Dhillon lost to Indonesia's
Setiawan Fredy
by 2-0 in the men's singles SL4 - Group B match here at Yoyogi National Stadium on Friday.
Playing at Court 1, the Indonesian outclassed Tarun in straight games 21-19, 21-9 in 27 minutes.
The Indian started the match on a good note as he was on equal footing with Setiawan. Tarun who was trailing 8-11 in the interval did a scintillating comeback in the later stages of the first set as he levelled the set on 19-19. Fredy kept his nerves better as he then clinched the last two points easily to clinch the first set.
The second set was all one-way traffic as the Indonesian thoroughly dominated the proceedings to take the match and the top place in the group.
In the Group A match,
Suhas Yathiraj also went down against his opponent from France by 2-0.
Lucas Mazur
defeated the Indian 21-15, 21-17 in 41 minutes.
Shuttlers Krishna Nagar, Manoj Sarkar have reached the semi-finals of the
Tokyo Paralympics
. While Krishna Nagar beat GV Tavares of Brazil in straight sets in the singles SL6 Group match, Manoj (SL3 Group match) defeated Ukraine's Oleksandr Chyrkov in a similar manner to reach the semi-finals.
Also Indian duo Pramod Bhagat and Palak Kohli defeated N Saensupa and Siripong Teamarrom 2-0 in mixed doubles SL3 SU5 Group match to move to semi-finals.