Treesa-Gayatri Pair Crash Out In Women's Doubles Semifinal

BASEL: India’s women’s badminton pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand saw their impressive run come to an end with a narrow three-game loss to the world number one Chinese duo of Liu Sheng Shu and Tan Ning in the semifinals of the Swiss Open in Basel on Saturday.

The world number. 9 Indian pair squandered an opening-game advantage, going down 21-15, 15-21, 12-21 to the top seeds Liu and Tan in a match that lasted an hour and 32 minutes.

Earlier, the duo beat Hong Kong’s Pui Lam Yeung and Nga Ting Yeung 21-18, 21-14 on Friday to reach semifinals.

This defeat marked the end of India’s campaign at the BWF Super 300 tournament, as Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian, the only Indian left in the singles draw, lost 10-21, 14-21 to world number 31 Christo Popov of France, a 2019 World Junior Championships silver medallist, on Friday night. Agencies

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