Badminton: India goes down fighting in quarterfinals of Canada Open Grand Prix

Curtains were drawn on India's campaign at Canada Open Grand Prix following the defeats of defending champion in men's doubles Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Redddy and mixed doubles pair in the quarterfinals.

Third seeds Manu and Sumeeth failed to put up a fight against Korean combo of Kim Won Ho and Seung Jae Seo, losing 12-21 15-21 within half an hour.

Mixed doubles second seeds Pranaav Jerry Chopra and N Sikki Reddy dished out a gritty performance before going down 17-21 22-20 18-21 to Korean duo of Kim Won Ho and Shin Seung Chan in a hard-fought match, which lasted an hour and two minutes.

The two Indian pairs along with young duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty and men's singles players -- H S Prannoy and Sameer Verma -- will now participate in the US Open Grand Prix Gold next week