The Indian Men’s Team went down 2-3 to their Chinese counterparts on Thursday in their Group A conflict on the Badminton Asia Team Championships in Shah Alam, Malaysia.
HS Prannoy and Lakshya Sen posted victories in singles rubbers earlier than the Chinese unit hit again with a win in two doubles occasions earlier than Wang Zheng Xing closed out the fixture with a win over Chirag Sen.
Despite the loss, India progressed to the quarterfinal of the occasion having completed second behind China in Group A.
Skipper HS Prannoy was up once more first, taking over China’s Weng Hong Yang in the primary recreation of the tie. The Indian appeared set for a repeat of yesterday because the Chinese shuttler demolished Prannoy in a dominant showcase in the primary set, flushing the Indian away 21-6.
But, the World No.7 Prannoy turned up the warmth as he bounced again with a tough-fought 21-18 win in the second set to tie up the sport and push it to one closing set.
Weng was in no temper to let the shift of momentum get the higher of him, as each shuttlers went backwards and forwards, level for level, in the final set which sat at 18-18. This was when Prannoy showcased his girt and broke by way of to clinch the set 21-19 and reward India a 1-0 lead in the tie.
The duo of MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila took to the courtroom up subsequent, as they confronted off towards the Chinese pair of Chen Bo Yang and Liu Yi. Yang and Yi took the primary set away from the Indians 21-15, earlier than a spirited comeback from the Indians clinched the second set 21-19.
With the whole lot to play for but once more, the Chinese took a cushty 19-13 lead over Arjun-Dhruv. And regardless of a fiery comeback, which noticed the Indians tie the sport at 19 factors themselves, Yang and Yi in the end triumphed over the following two serves to seal the set 21-19 and to retrieve some extent for China, to tie the rating 1-1.
Lakshya Sen although took the mantle subsequent and ensured that India regain the higher hand as he breezed previous Lei Lan Xi in two straight units of 21-11, 21-16, and continued to construct on his fiery kind and pipped India over China 2-1.
But, it’s not over till it’s over. The loss didn’t hinder China however slightly fired them up extra, as in the fourth recreation the pair of Ren Xiang Yu and Xie Hao Nan wreaked havoc upon the Indian pair of Suraj Goala and Pruthvi Krishnamurthy Roy, trampling over the Indians in two blazing units of 21-13, 21-9 to tie the sport up 2-2.
Once once more for India, it was all down to the final recreation.
China’s Wang Zheng Xing ensured that his facet would decide up the win towards the Indian unit with a 21-15, 21-16 straight units win over Chirag Sen in the decider to declare the triumph.
