Thilini suffers two defeats [November 16 2010]

Thilini Jayasinghe lost her women’s singles first round match of the 16th Asian Games badminton competition to Indian Aditi Mutatkar in straight sets 11-21, 19-21 in Guangzhou today.

Having lost the first set in eight minutes, Olympian Jayasinghe came back strongly in the evenly contested second set. But she failed to take that vital final point which would have stretched the game to a three setter.

In the women’s doubles round one of the badminton competition worked off this afternoon, Thailand’s Aroonkesorn and Voravichitchaikul beat Sri Lanka’s Subodha Kumari Yapa and Jayasinghe in straight sets 21-5, 21-9.