Asian Badminton Championship medal exhibits India can win Sudirman Cup: Coach Vimal Kumar-Sports activities Information , Firstpost

The Indian workforce poses with the tricolour after beating Hong Kong to substantiate their first-ever medal on the Asia Combined Group Badminton Championships. Picture credit score: Twitter/@BAI_Media

India’s first-ever bronze medal on the Asia Badminton Combined workforce championships has proven that the nation can win the Sudirman Cup this 12 months, feels former nationwide coach Vimal Kumar. India on Saturday narrowly went down 2-3 to formidable China within the semifinals to log out their marketing campaign with a maiden bronze medal in Dubai.

It was a creditable efficiency since India had been with out the companies of an injured Satwiksairaj Rankireddy however the males’s pair of Chirag Shetty-Dhruv Kapila and younger ladies’s doubles duo of Treesa Jolly-Gayatri Gopichand dished out superlative exhibits to take India to the semifinals.

“As soon as Satwik comes again, we may have a robust doubles pair and our singles have all the time been robust. Prannoy and Sindhu are additionally able to beating anyone. So I really feel we’ve an honest likelihood to win the Sudirman Cup,” Vimal, who was current when the lads’s workforce received the Thomas Cup title final 12 months, advised PTI.

“The women doubles have additionally proven good stage, particularly Treesa and Gayatri beating the Malaysian prime doubles pair (world no 4 Tan Pearly and Thinaah Muralitharan) will give them loads of confidence. We are able to’t say it’s too formidable (to win Sudirman Cup). We are able to. It’s precisely what we did in Thomas cup. We may be hopeful after this efficiency.” Sudirman Cup is the combined workforce competitors on the international stage.

India had sealed their first-ever continental bronze medal after beating Hong Kong within the quarterfinals on Friday. The feat additionally helped India earn direct qualification to the Sudirman Cup scheduled to be held in Suzhou, China from Could 14-21.

“It was a great bronze medal. Although I’m a bit disillusioned as we had a great likelihood of beating China yesterday. It might have been good to beat China. It’s the first time in historical past we got here so near beating them. We’ve all the time struggled in combined workforce occasions,” Vimal stated.

He stated India might have received the event as properly, contemplating the workforce had crushed Malaysia and Hong Kong.

“Creditable efficiency from males’s doubles and girls’s doubles. I’ll give them loads of credit score. They did a great job, in contrast to the singles. Usually our energy is singles however despite the fact that Satwik couldn’t play, the doubles pairs performed properly towards Hong Kong and China. The ladies’s pair particularly confirmed marked enchancment.

“It’s disappointing that singles misplaced, if one among them might have received, it might have taken us to finals. Many gamers from China are injured, so that they gave an opportunity to those guys who had been injured for a while.” World quantity 9 H S Prannoy misplaced to Lei Lan Xi 13-21, 15-21, whereas double Olympic medallist P V Sindhu suffered a 9-21 21-16 18-21 defeat to Gao Fang Jie.

Dhruv Kapila and Chirag Shetty then beat He Ji Ting and Zhou Hao Dong 21-19, 21-19, whereas Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand defeated Liu Sheng Shu and Tan Ning 21-18 13-21 21-19 to deliver India again into the competition.

The combined doubles mixture of Ishaan Bhatnagar and Tanisha Crasto suffered 17-21 13-21 defeat to Jiang Zhen Bang and Wei Ya Xin as India misplaced the tie 2-3.

Vimal was left disillusioned with the singles efficiency, particularly Sindhu.

“Prannoy was taking part in properly, so it was a bit disappointing. If he had taken the second sport, he might have discovered a means. He didn’t have any concept tips on how to play as he was taking part in for the primary time, so he struggled.

“Sindhu was comfortably positioned after the second sport. After the harm, I believe she is struggling to range the tempo throughout rallies, when to push the tempo and it let her down.” Former world championships bronze medallist Lakshya Sen didn’t have a great outing as he had misplaced in three video games to Hong Kong’s NG Ka Lengthy Angus.

Vimal stated: “He’s dropping shut matches however I’ll give him a while. He went by way of two surgical procedures — nostril and shoulder — after the commonwealth Video games. He has not totally recovered from that.

“He’s coaching properly and I really feel he’s nonetheless taking part in at a great stage. All of it depends upon the day because the competitors within the prime 20 is kind of robust.” Speaking about Treesa and Gayatri, Vimal stated: “Undoubtedly they’re all very younger, the extra they play such robust matches, they are going to get higher. Precedence now’s to compete in as many good matches as attainable. They should play extra overseas towards Korean, Chinese language and Japanese.

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