Former All England Open champion Pullela Gopichand bowed out of the Singapore Open badminton championship losing his second round match to top seed Peter Gade of Denmark on Thursday.

Gopichand went down 10-15, 3-15 to bring down curtains on the Indian challenge in the tournament, being played at the Singapore Indoor stadium.

The 31-year-old, who was out of the competitive circuit for almost a year due to a knee injury, had made a thumping comeback just two weeks ago when he won the Asian Satellite tournament in Hyderabad.

In the first round on Wednesday, Gopichand defeated Wei Chung Pei of Malaysia 15-8, 15-5.

The other Indians in the fray, Abhinn Shyam Gupta and national women's champion Aparna Popat were shown the door in the first round itself.

Gupta went down to eighth seed Wei NG of Hong Kong 0-15, 13-15 while Popat was thrashed by fourth seeded Chinese, Mi Zhou 11-1, 11-0.