The Indian men’s group felt the absence of star doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty because it suffered a slender 2-3 loss to China in the Badminton Asia Team Championships group tie right here on Thursday.
Star shuttlers HS Prannoy and Lakshya Sen received their singles matches however China fought again with wins in the 2 doubles contests to make it 2-2. National champion Chirag Sen then misplaced 15-21 16-21 to Wang Zheng Xing in the fifth match as India conceded the tie.
Already by way of to the knock-out stage, India completed second in the group, with China taking the highest spot.
World No. 1 pair of Satwik and Chirag and 2021 World Championships silver medallist Kidambi Srikanth had been rested by the group administration as India had already made it to the quarterfinals after the 1-4 win over Hong Kong on Wednesday.
World No. 7 Prannoy began the proceedings with a gritty 6-21 21-18 21-19 win over world no. 16 Weng Hong Yang to put India 1-0 forward.
In the primary doubles, world no. 44 MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila squandered one-game benefit to lose 15-21 21-19 19-21 to Chinese mixture of Chen Bo Yang and Liu Yi, ranked 17 locations above them.
Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen then thrashed Lei Lan Xi 21-11 21-16 in 40 minutes to once more carry India again into the lead however nationwide champions Suraj Goala and Pruthvi Krishnamurthy Roy misplaced 13-21 9-21 to Ren Xiang Yu and Xie Hao Nan in second doubles because the scoreline learn 2-2.
In the deciding match, Chirag couldn’t get India the win.
With each the groups already assured of a knockout berth, the main target will now shift on the quarterfinals.
The Indian girls’s group had shocked China 3-2 in their league match to prime its group on Tuesday. Prannoy and Weng had earlier confronted one another in two finals with every getting the higher off the opposite as soon as. On Thursday, the duo dished out some superlative badminton to hold the followers on the sting of their seats.
Weng opened up 10-0 lead in a jiffy to take the primary recreation 21-6.
In the second recreation, Prannoy slowly and steadily construct up lead at 3-1 and 9-7, earlier than leaping to a 15-11 benefit.
Though Weng clawed his means again to 15-15, the Indian confirmed nerves of metal to hold his opponent at bay and win the second recreation 21-18.
The decider was no completely different as as soon as once more lead modified palms with Prannoy 8-5 and 15-12 up at completely different levels and managed to hold a combating Weng at bay to shut out the match.
Sen, who has slipped to world no. 19, nevertheless, didn’t have a lot drawback in prevailing over world no. 35 Lei in their first assembly. The Indian was up 10-5 and stored his nostril forward and earned the bragging rights with a six-point burst.
In the second recreation, Sen once more slowly moved to a wholesome 11-7 lead and regardless of Lei making it 14-16, he moved forward to seal the competition with out a lot ado.
Results: Men: China bt India 3-2 (Weng Hong Yang misplaced to HS Prannoy 21-6, 18-21, 19-21; Chen Bo Yang/Liu Yi bt MR Arjun/Dhruv Kapila 21-15, 19-21, 21-19; Lei Lan Xi misplaced to Lakshya Sen 11-21, 16-21; Ren Xiang Yu/Xie Hao Nan bt Suraj Goala/Pruthvi Ok Roy 21-13, 21-9; Wang Zheng Xing bt Chirag Sen 21-15, 21-16).
