CWG 2022: India dethroned as combined workforce badminton champions as spirited Malaysia win Gold

The males’s desk tennis workforce efficiently defended their Commonwealth Games title in Birmingham nevertheless it was not meant to be for the combined workforce badminton workforce from India as they have been dethroned as champions by a spirited Malaysian workforce on Tuesday, August 2.

Malaysia gained their 4th Commonwealth Games combined workforce badminton crown after beating India 3-1 within the gold medal match in Birmingham.

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Two-time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu was at her finest, serving to India bounce again from the boys’s doubles defeat with a stable exhibiting within the ladies’s singles match towards Goh Jin Wei, the World No. 60, beating her in straight video games after surviving a scare within the first sport.

However, former World No. 1 and member of India’s Thomas Cup-winning workforce, Kidambi Srikanth, suffered a shock defeat to World No. 42 Ng Tze Yong. The 22-year-old Malaysian stepped up within the absence of former All England champion and World No. 5 Lee Zii Jia, who had pulled out of the Games in Birmingham because of workload administration.

India didn’t discipline their highest-ranked males’s singles participant, Lakshya Sen within the line-up for the gold medal match. Lakshya did the job for India within the semi-final, beating reigning world champion Loh Kean Yew within the males’s singles tie towards Singapore.

SRIKANTH STUMBLES

Srikanth misplaced the opening sport 21-19 towards Ng Tze Yong, who was taking part in as a person possessed. The younger Malaysian flaunted his velocity and aggression as Srikanth was bowled over.

However, the Indian, who gained the world championships silver medal in 2021 in Huelva, rapidly recovered to degree the boys’s singles match. Srikanth gained 12 of the final 13 factors within the 2nd sport and regarded like he would breeze previous the Malaysian.

However, the decider was Yong’s time to bounce again and he did so in type, taking the match 21-19, 6-21, 21-16 to present Malaysia an enormous 2-1 lead.

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Sindhu, who did her job to perfection, additionally doubled because the cheerleader as Srikanth’s teammates have been cheering him on from the sidelines. However, all of the motivation was not sufficient for the previous World No. 1 who misplaced what proved to be a decisive match.

It was disappointing to see Srikanth go down within the males’s singles tie of the Commonwealth Games combined workforce closing, 4 years after he defeated Malaysian nice Lee Chong Wei within the closing.

SATWIK-CHIRAG OUTCLASSED

World No. 7 doubles pairing of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty discovered the going robust towards higher-ranked Aron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik of Malaysia because the Indian pair misplaced the primary match of the tie in straight video games.

Satwik and Chirag gave it their all nevertheless it wasn’t sufficient because the Malaysian pair gave their workforce a 1-0 lead after a 21-18, 21-15 win.

GAYATRI, JOLLY’S BRAVE FIGHT NOT ENOUGH

The onus to carry the tie again on degree phrases fell on younger Gayatri Gopichand and Jolly Treesa. The Indian ladies’s doubles pair, which had reached the All England semi-final earlier this yr, got here up with a valiant present however World No 11 Pearly Tan and Thinaah Muralitharan resisted the cost and gave Malaysia the successful second with a straight-game win within the 4th match of the tie.

Pearly suffered an damage scare on the finish of the second sport however the Malaysians held their composure to win the match 21-17, 21-18.

India’s Satwik and Ashwini Ponnappa did not get a chance to come back collectively as Malaysia, which had gained the title between 2006 and 2014, champions Malaysia regained their crown in combined workforce badminton on the Commonwealth Games.

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