Olympics: Japan's Fukushima, Hirota take 1st women's badminton doubles loss

Japanese top seeds Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota suffered their first loss of the women's badminton women's doubles competition at the Tokyo Games on Tuesday, going down 2-1 to Indonesia's Greysia Polii and Apriyani Rahayu in their final group-stage match.Fukushima and Hirota lost 24-22, 13-21, 21-8 and dropped to 2-1. The Japanese pair had already booked their spot in the knockout stage and advance in second place from Group A behind Polli and Rahayu (3-0).Polli and Rahayu won more than 10 straight points in the third game en route to victory."We were pretty poor at the end," said Fukus…READ FULL ARTICLE