Dubai [UAE], February 17 (ANI): The Indian badminton workforce handed a 4-1 defeat to Commonwealth Games champions Malaysia of their last Group B tie on the ongoing Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships 2023 in Dubai on Thursday to finish up as table-toppers of their group and advance to the quarter-finals.
India certified for the QFs with wins over Kazakhstan and UAE as nicely. They have maintained an ideal file of three wins in three ties. In the quarterfinals on Friday, India can be taking part in Hong Kong, which completed at quantity two in Group D, as per Olympics.com.
At the Dubai Exhibition Centre, World quantity 9 HS Prannoy, India’s prime males’s singles star, gave an amazing begin to India’s tie by gorgeous the world quantity 4 and present Asian champion Lee Zii Jia 18-21, 21-13, 25-23.
Two-time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu continued India’s domination, thrashing Malaysian teen Wong Ling Ching 21-13, 21-17 within the ladies’s singles match. India have been main 2-0 at this level.
Malaysia made a brief comeback within the tie, defeating India’s makeshift males’s doubles pair of Chirag Shetty and Dhruv Kapila, who went right down to Tokyo Olympics 2020 bronze medalists Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik by 16-21, 10-21.
The scoreline was 2-1 at this level, although nonetheless in favour of India.
In the ladies’s doubles match, the world quantity 19 duo of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand avenged their loss to the world quantity 5 pair of Pearly Tan and Thiinaah Muralitharan within the CWG 2022 combined workforce last. The Indians emerged victorious 23-21, 21-15.
The combined doubles pair of Ishaan Bhatnagar and Tanisha Crasto overcame resistance from Chen Tang Jie and Toh Ee Wei to win 21-19, 19-21, 21-16.
This is the second time that India has certified for QFs in three editions of the championships. They have been knocked out of group phases again in 2019 and have been overwhelmed 3-2 by Thailand within the quarterfinals of the inaugural version of the event again in 2017. (ANI)