India’s marketing campaign within the Badminton Asian Mixed Team Championship ended with a 2-3 loss to China within the semi-finals, however not earlier than the doubles groups — males’s and combined — got here up with impressed performances to provide their opponents a troublesome time on Saturday. Though India misplaced the keenly contested rubber, they’ll return residence with a first-ever medal — a bronze — from the continental event, as each shedding semi-finalists are awarded medals.

Down 0-2 after HS Prannoy had misplaced the opening semi-final match to Lei Lan Xi 13-21, 15-21 and two-time Olympic medallist P V Sindhu had suffered a 9-21 21-16 18-21 defeat by the hands of Gao Fang Jie, the doubles groups gave a much better efficiency to convey India again on stage phrases (2-2).

Prannoy was no match for the 2016 world junior champion in combined workforce occasion, shedding in simply 45 minutes, whereas Sindhu, who’s progressively getting again to full health after a heel damage that saved her out for 5 months, gave a troublesome battle to her 24-year-old opponent earlier than bowing out in a single hour and 10 minutes.

The males’s doubles pair of Dhruv Kapila and Chirag Shetty then overcame Ji Ting and Zhou Hao Dong 21-19,21-19 and the ladies’s doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand defeated Liu Sheng Shu and Tan Ning 21-18 13-21 21-19 to stage the scores at 2-2.

All eyes have been on the combined doubles pair of Ishaan Bhatnagar and Tanisha Crasto to information India into the ultimate however Jiang Zhen Bang and Wei Ya Xin proved too robust within the decider, profitable 21-17 21-13 in simply 34 minutes.

Earlier on Friday, India had staged a outstanding comeback to down Hong Kong 3-2 and qualify for the semi-finals and guarantee a first-ever medal within the continental event.

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