World number 23 Malvika, a runner-up at the 2024 Hylo Open, too found the going tough against former world champion and Thai veteran Ratchanok Intanon.

She went down 12-16-21 to the world number five shuttler in their second-round women’s singles fixture of the USD 475,000 tournament.

Later in the day, the women’s and men’s doubles pairs of Tressa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand and Sai Pratheek K and Pruthvi Krishnamurthy Roy, and singles players Tharun Mannepalli and Aakarshi Kashyap, will be in action. PTI APA BS BS