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It was a 5-0 loss at the hands of Malaysia as India were knocked out of the Sudirman Cup on Monday – and the loss follows a 1-4 defeat by Taiwan in the group stage on Sunday. All the big names slumped losses and there was little to save them from a poor run of form as India’s hopes were over in a couple of days, hopefully using Australia’s inconsequential final to test the new names.
On Monday, the results were bad. Dhruv Kapila had stepped in for Satwiksairaj Rankireddy in the men’s doubles in the Asian mixed team event, but wasn’t very effective in the mixed doubles in the Sudirman Cup although Ashwini Poonappa and I tried their best during their 21-16, 21-17 loss to combine right and left. by Goh Soon Huat / Lai SJ. In what were initially short rallies, the Indian duo lacked the sharpness of a regular pairing as they fell behind in both sets and never recovered from the leads.
When the defense improved like 16-19 in the second over a long drive, the last shot was still a long way off, and the Malaysian combination was just too much for the Indian pair to doodle.
Kidambi Srikanth took to court against Li Zi Jia, who was in great shape that day. As early as 8-10 in the opener, after Lee had won 6 of those last 8 points, it became clear that Srikanth was going to be in trouble when the Malaysian pulled out his shortest swinging machete, and the next point successfully found corner lines. Lee pulled away at 12-17 and never looked back.
Srikanth suffered mainly because all his punches and attacks simply could not affect Lee’s powerful long-range defense. Frustrated with every wrecked shuttle right back at him, his mistakes were compounded when going for the lines. Some, hit the net excessively, others splashed wide. With Srikanth, as soon as bugs come, they trickle in, and he struggles to stem the tide.
At 9-20 a second, he found himself in an open field still broadly smashed. He tried everything – to speed up the pace, Lee was ready for it; Front yard con, Lee picked them all. His misery ended with a loss of 21-16, 21-11.
Perhaps the most unusual loss of her career, but PV Sindhu may struggle to understand how she went from taking the opening set 21-14 in 15 minutes against Goh Jin Wei and then proceeded to howl a second set riddled with so many errors, even the opponent seemed surprised. But nothing can beat the wild rollercoaster that was the clincher. Bond fell behind 3-13, continuing the splattered error game of slashing in the shuttles with seemingly no direction to hit. All this while Goh played a simple but exceptionally consistent game of slow drops to rack up points behind Sindhu’s mistakes. The Malaysian was also visibly tired even when Sindh fell behind from 2-11 to close at 14-15.
However, mistakes matched the winners, and Goh would make it 16-19 with a powerful cross. Sindhu tied the game at 20-20, but the day belonged to Goh Jin Wei who reversed his 0-3 career to count heads with a 14-21, 21-10, 22-20 win.
0-3 in a tie, India was eliminated from the Sudirman Cup.
Satwikshairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty were unable to reverse the 0-7h-2-h against reigning world champions Aaron Chea and Suh and Wei Yik, as their front court speed troubled them again in quick exchanges. It’s a way of playing they find embarrassing, and that continued in the 21-18, 21-19 defeat by the Malaysians.
Tresa Jolie and Gayatri Gopichand Pullela were so muted that day that they couldn’t pull themselves off a match that could stop the steamy Malaysian pairing of Pearly Tan and Theinaah Muralitharan. It was a lukewarm showing from the young Indians as they lost 21-15, 21-13.
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