Kidambi Srikanth got here up with an underwhelming performance as India succumbed 1-3 to Malaysia and settled for a silver within the blended group badminton match at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday.
Srikanth misplaced to lower-ranked Tze Yong Ng in three games to position the defending champions on the backfoot within the wonderful.
P.V. Sindhu did what used to be anticipated out of her within the females’s singles while the males’s doubles pairing of Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty went down within the gap doubles.
With the elevate, Malaysia regained the title they had misplaced to India four years ago in Gold Hover.
For India to have interaction gold, plenty relied on the end results of the males’s doubles tie featuring Rankireddy and Shetty, and, the Olympic bronze medallists duo of Teng Fong Aaron Chia and Wooi Yik Soh.
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The females’s doubles and blended doubles had been India’s weaker links and the group relied on males’s doubles and the 2 singles to get the job finished.
The opening contest used to be beefy of lengthy and winding rallies nonetheless Reddy and Shetty misplaced majority of them, failing to protect wobble with the extremely attacking Malaysian pair.
For a swap, the Malaysian crowd made more noise than the Indians, offering a extra push to Chia and Soh. After a disturbing battle, the Malaysians won 21-18, 21-15 to position their group 1-0 up.
Within the females’s singles, two-time Olympic medallist Sindhu used to be anticipated to raise very simply nonetheless the 60-th ranked Goh Jin Wei made existence very disturbing for the arena number 7.
Sindhu led 11-6 within the well-known sport nonetheless Goh appeared a certain player after the interval. She made the aged world
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