India’s Treesa Jolly (L) and Gayatri Gopichand Pullela (R) have fun after wining towards Thailand’s Rawinda Prajongjai and Jongkolphan Kititharakul (unseen) in their women’s doubles finals match on the 2024 Badminton Asia Team Championships in Shah Alam, Selangor, on February, 18, 2024.
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Young Anmol Kharb as soon as once more did the star flip as Indian women beat Thailand 3-2 in an exciting closing to clinch their maiden gold medal on the Badminton Asia Team Championships in Shah Alam on February 18.
The younger and sprightly group of Indian women’s staff, led by P.V. Sindhu, defied all expectations because it rose to the event to come back up trumps towards two-time bronze medallists Thailand.
It, nonetheless, must be talked about that like many of the groups in the competitors, Thailand weren’t at full energy. They had been with out their high two singles gamers world No. 13 Ratchanok Intanon and world No. 16 Pornpawee Chochuwong.
Two-time Olympic medallist P.V. Sindhu, who’s returning to motion after a four-month injury-forced break, was again to her aggressive greatest as rode on her energy and placement to outclass world no 17 Supanida Katethong 21-12 21-12 in the primary singles and hand India a 1-0 lead.
World no. 23 Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand then continued their splendid run, allotting one other gritty efficiency to shock world no. 10 pair of Jongkolphan Kititharakul and Rawinda Pra Jongjai 21-16 18-21 21-16 to place India in the motive force’s seat.
Playing the second singles towards world no. 18 Busanan Ongbamrungphan, expectations had been excessive from Ashmita Chaliha after her gorgeous win towards former world champion Nozomi Okuhara of Japan on Saturday.
The Indian, who had defeated Busanan through the Singapore Open in 2022, stayed in the match until 14-14 in the second recreation however a string of unforced errors thereafter price Ashmita dearly as she went down 11-21 14-21 to the skilled Thai.
It was going to be a tall activity for younger Shruti Mishra and Priya Konjengbam, the senior nationwide champions, to tame world no 13 mixture of Benyapa Aimsaard and Nuntakarn Aimsaard and the world no 107 Indian duo expectedly misplaced 11-21 9-21 in simply 29 minutes.
The tie evenly poised at 2-2, Anmol Kharb once more shouldered the accountability of taking India by and he or she did simply that with a dominating 21-14 21-9 victory over world no. 45 Pornpicha Choeikeewong in the deciding third singles.
Soon after the win, the complete squad received right into a huddle to elevate Anmol as ut celebrated the magnificent win on the Setia City Convention Center right here.
India had received two medals in the previous with the boys’s staff claiming bronze medals in the 2016 and 2020 editions respectively.
