Asian Games | IND vs CHINA: Indian men’s badminton team clinches first-ever-silver after losing to China
Asian Games | IND vs CHINA: Every day, India is achieving new highs at the ongoing 19th Asian Games at Hangzhou making the country proud by clinching 53 medals with 13 gold, 21 silver and 19 bronze.
In a thrilling showdown and remarkable display of marksmanship, Indian badminton men’s made a history as they clinched India’s first-ever-silver medal in Asian Games after losing to China. The Indian men’s badminton team lost the gold medal match 2-3 to China.
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Lakshya Sen and the men's doubles pair Satwik Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty got India off to a flier but India failed to capitalise on it as they let the hosts China script a comeback and take the tie 3-2.
Sensational Sen started the proceedings for the Indian team. He was trailing 10-14 at one stage in the final game but made a fantastic turnaround to win the game by 22-20.
Sen had his moments in the second game but was playing catch-up for the most part. Both players showed signs of fatigue as the rallies grew shorter and the error count rose. However, it was Yuqi who came out victorious and struck back hard to take Lakshya to the deciding game.
Yuqi extended his dominance into the third game and held a 14-10 lead over Indian. Lakshya made an epic comeback as he scored four consecutive points to draw level before pulling ahead in some fashion.
Lakshya displayed tremendous grit, endurance, and in-game smarts to pull off a sensational win for India 22-20, 14-21, 21-18 against World No. 6 Yuqi Shi.
World No.3 players in men's double Satwik Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty started the game against World No.2 Wang Chang and Liang Weikeng with brutal smashes.
Shetty was in terrific form with his net play and left the Chinese duo rattled. While Liang and Wang did get close, Satwik and Chirag secured three game points and won with the second, taking India to the cusp of making history.
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The Chinese men's badminton team, after conceding a two-match lead, came back to level the gold medal tie 2-2 at the Asian Games. Li Shifeng defeated former world No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth 24-22, 21-9.
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