Double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu and rising star Lakshya Sen made quarter-final exits in their respective singles events, ending India’s challenge in the Indonesia Open Super Series 500 tournament here on Friday. The 20-year-old Sen went down fighting to his higher-seeded Taiwan rival Chou Tien Chen 21-16, 12-21, 21-14.

India’s last hope then rested on Sindhu but the former world champion went down without a fight to her nemesis Ratchanok Intanon 12-21, 10-21 in a match lasting a little over half an hour.

The 27-year-old was at her dominating best and looked at ease with both in attacks and defence and the Indian was never able to fight back and suffered her fifth straight loss against her Thai rival. After pocketing the first game easily, Intanon looked even more furious in the second and raced to a 10-point lead before sealing the issue in 33 minutes to improve her head-to-head against Sindhu to 9-4.

Sindhu, who made a semi-final exit in the Thailand Open last month, had earned a hard-fought victory over Gregoria Mariska Tunjung to enter the quarter finals.

Earlier, Sen bounced back to level the second game but Chen was superior in the decider.