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Indias Kidambi Srikanth fought frayed nerves to put up a valiant show before going down to Chinese badminton superstar and world No. 3 Lin Dan 6-21, 21-11, 18-21 in the mens singles quarterfinals in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday. The loss now leaves the burden of a medal finish for India in badminton on PV Sindhu, who will play her semi-final on Thursday.Coming into the encounter having not dropped a single game in the previous three matches, Srikanth looked nervous and overawed by the occasion. With unforced errors gnawing at his game, he fell behind 1-11 early in the first game. Playing a dominant game, Lin had the Indian undone with his drops, smashes and amazing retrievals. Even the smashes that Srikanth could manage, like the cross-court one at 6-20, sailed wide. Lin won the first game in 16 minutes.Nosing ahead 3-0 lead in the second, Srikanth, whose brief chat with coach Pullela Gopichand at the break seemed to have paid off, held on to his lead at 7-4. The world No. 11-ranked Indian was playing like a wholly different player, a departure from his flummoxed self in the first game. Lin, who slipped quite a few times during the second game, asked for the court to be swabbed again. A brilliant smash had a hapless Lin on all fours, as the Indian went ahead 16-9, scenting a decider. Soon enough Srikanth wrapped up the game 21-11 as Lin dropped a game only for the third time in as many Olympic appearances.The third game was a tense and close one, with Srikanth forcing Lin to scamper all over the court, drawing even at 7-7 before the Chinese dispatched a scorching smash to close in 11-13. Though Srikanth put up a brilliant effort to stay afloat, Lin overpowered him with his well-placed smashes to move into the semi-finals with a 21-18 win in the decider.Srikanth had been in stellar form at the Olympics, pulling off a win over world No. 5 Jan O Jorgensen in straight games in the pre-quarterfinals.Srikanth, making his first Olympic appearance, had lost to the two-time Olympic gold medallist and defending champion in two of the three occasions that they played each other before this. The Indians sole win over his childhood hero came in the final of the China Open Super Series Premier tournament two years ago.Srikanth later regretted making some crucial mistakes near the end of the match.In the second game, he said the plan was to not make simple mistakes like I made in the first game. About his comeback from the second game onwards, Srikanth said: I wanted to be a little more aggressive, thats the only strategy. 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Holly Clyburn and Jodi Ewart Shadoff routed Pornanong Phatlum and Porani Chutichai 7 and 5, helping seventh-seeded England to a Pool B-best nine points.We couldnt have asked for much of a better day than we got today, Clyburn said.The U.S., which began the day with just three points, turned in its best performance so far in the rare team event on the LPGA Tour. Lexi Thompson and Cristie Kerr posted their second straight win with a 4-and-2 victory over Ai Suzuki and Ayaka Watanabe, and Stacy Lewis and Gerina Piller surged to a 3-and-1 win over Haru Nomara and Mika Miyazato.Taiwan also wrapped up a spot in the fourth session before a lingering thunderstorm postponed play with two Pool A matches still on the course, leaving two spots open for Sundays 10 singles matches. The country with the most points at the end of the weekend wins a silver trophy, to go along with $100,000 and a crown for each of its four players.Before the rain drenched the course, the players had to play through hot and humid conditions at the Merit Club about 40 miles northwest of Chicago.Have you ever seen the movie `Good Morning, Vietnam, where Robin Williams goes off into the tangent where its like, its hot, its sticky, its hot, a smiling Kerr said. It was pretty much like that.The 20-year-old Hull struggled to breathe for much of Thursday night and got some oxygen and an IV to help her feel better. She watched the back nine of Reids gutsy effoort playing by herself in a close loss to Japan, and felt fresh as a daisy heading into the third session.ddddddddddddShaking off a slow start, Hull and Reid won five straight holes to go from two down to three up. Hull had three straight birdies before she eagled the par-5 eighth. Reid closed out the string with a birdie on No. 9.Me and Mel both played awesome, so it was fun, Hull said.England did not make the field for the inaugural event in 2014, won by Spain with 15 points. It was considered an afterthought coming into this week, but the strong start has the women dreaming of what a victory could do for the sport in their country.You know, if we did win, hopefully it would inspire not only girls but women and men and some young guys and boys and stuff to want to take up the club and think that its fun and want to learn how to play this game, Reid said.The second-seeded U.S. was swept by England on Thursday, but it rebounded with three points against Thailand in the second session and picked up even more momentum against Japan. Piller finished her match with a birdie on 17, and Thompson beat the oncoming storm with a closing eagle on 16.We stuck with our pairings, and we just tried to stay positive with it and go out and play aggressive, Thompson said. We knew we had to make birdies and just go for it.Piller and Lewis were tied with Nomura and Miyazato before Piller rolled in a birdie from the fringe on 12. Piller got a good look at the putt when Lewis left one just short from right in front of her ball.Any time you get a free read is huge, and after she hit it, she told me what she put it at and where it ended up, Piller said.---Jay Cohen can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/jcohenap ' ' '