India begin Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships campaign with 5-0 win over Macau
Last edition’s bronze medallists, India, kicked off their Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships 2025 campaign with a thumping 5-0 victory over Macau in Group D at the Qingdao Sports Centre Conson Gymnasium
- QINGDAO (CHINA) — Last edition’s bronze medallists, India, kicked off their
Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships 2025 campaign with a thumping 5-0
victory over Macau in Group D at the Qingdao Sports Centre Conson Gymnasium on
Wednesday.
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- The dominant victory also confirmed India’s passage to
the knockout stage. The 2023 bronze medallists will face South Korea in their
second group stage match on Thursday to determine the group standings. The top
two teams from each group will advance to the knockout stage.
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- National Games mixed doubles gold medallists Sathish
Karunakaran and Aadya Variyath began India’s march with a 21-10, 21-9 win over
Leong Iok Chong and Ng Weng Chi in the tie’s opening mixed doubles match.
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- Lakshya Sen then made India lead to it 2-0 with a 21-16,
21-12 victory over Pui Pang Fong in the men’s singles, while Malvika Bansod
then confirmed India’s passage to the knockout stage by beating Chan Hao Wai
21-15, 21-9 in the women’s singles.
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- India fielded a scratch combination of MR Arjun and
Chirag Shetty in the men’s doubles and had no trouble defeating Macau’s pairing
of Pui and Vong Kok Weng 21-15, 21-9 to make it 4-0.
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- The women’s doubles pairing of Gayatri Gopichand and
Treesa Jolly completed the 5-0 score line with a 21-10, 21-5 triumph over Ng
Weng Chi and Pui Chi Wa, applying the icing on the cake.
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- India's campaign in the last edition of the Badminton
Asia Mixed Team Championship ended with a 2-3 loss to China in the semifinals
and they returned home with a first-ever medal -- a bronze -- from the
continental tournament.
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- Result: India bt Macau 5-0 (Satish Karunakaran/Aadya
Variyath bt Leong Iok Chong/Ng Weng Chi 21-10, 21-9; Lakshya Sen bt Pui Pang
Fong 21-16, 21-12; Malvika Bansod bt Chan Hao Wai 21-15, 21-9; MR Arjun/Chirag
Shetty bt Pui Chi Chon/Vong Kok Weng 21-15, 21-9; Gayatri Gopichand/Treesa
Jolly bt NG Weng Chi/Pui Chi Wa 21-10, 21-5).
