Iowa, June 26 -- Ace Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth suffered a loss in his opening round of the men's singles event at the US Open 2025 badminton tournament.

Former world No. 1 Srikanth, currently 50th in the badminton rankings and seeded eighth for the BWF Super 300 tournament, lost 21-19, 12-21, 21-14 to the 77th-ranked Harry Huang of England on Wednesday, as per the Olympics.com.

Following his inspiring run at last month's Malaysia Masters, where he became only the second man in history to reach the final of a BWF Super 500 event after starting from the qualifiers, Srikanth was stunned in the first game on Wednesday despite leading 18-16 at one stage.

The Indian badminton player fought back in the second game to force a decider bu...