India had won a historic gold medal in the previous edition in 2024, but the absence of the talismanic P.V. Sindhu due to a niggle made the task of defending the title a tough one. It is the latest updated – February 06, 2026, 11:50 am IST – Qingdao (China). In India, the women’s badminton team get very disappointed. They lost the game 0-3 times. Showing on a scoring board. They lost in a quarterfinal of the game Asian team champions.
India has won a historic gold medal in the edition year of 2024 edition. Tanvi, who had been leading the charge in the first singles with two wins earlier in the tournament, failed to provide a positive start, losing 9-21, 9-21 to World No. 10 Gao Fang Jie in a lop-sided opener. In the doubles match of doubles of “Gayatri Gopichand & Tress Jolly”, they show their strength before going down.
This is the world’s no.4 famous best duels combination of Jai Yi Fan & Zhang Shu Xian as China took a decisive 2-0 lead. They mention their situation, a situation of do or die. India had begun their campaign with a 5-0 sweep of Myanmar before suffering a narrow 2-3 defeat to Thailand in their final group tie on Thursday (February 5).
Like this also the mail team is also playing the match in this sport later against South Korea. India has opted not to fail in the match, even as singles players, “Lakshya Sen” and “Ayush Shetty”. Lakshya did not feature in India’s previous tie against Japan and had earlier lost to former world champion Loh Kean Yew during the group-stage encounter against Singapore.
India will also miss Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, even when he was returning after his father’s first death anniversary. Former world championships silver medallist Kidambi Srikanth is set to face Choi Ji Hoon in the second singles.
The defending task is some more hard this time, seeing this match, the audience who came to see this match were very disappointed. But one good thing has happened: India has won a historic gold medal.
World No. 42 Tanvi, who had been leading the charge in the first singles with two wins earlier in the tournament, failed to provide a positive start, losing 9-21, 9-21 to World No. 10 Gao Fang Jie in a lop-sided opener.
The double pair of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly, they both played so hard and played well in the match, the world No.4 combination of Jia Yi Fan and Zhang Shu Xian, as China took a decisive 2-0 lead. There is tough competition and intrusting match is going on; people are more likely to watch the match.
India has opted not to field top singles player Lakshya Sen, with Ayush Shetty slated to take on Yoo Tae Bin in the opening men’s singles of the tie. India will also miss Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, who is returning home to attend his father’s first death anniversary. Think about who was the first man in a double match competition, the one and only name that comes to mind is Chirag Shetty and Hariharan Amsakarunam.
ChampionshipWho was the world championship silver medallist in badminton? He is Kidambi Srikanth, Pruthvi Krishnan and Sai Pratheek will contest the second doubles, while Tharun Manne Palli will play Cho Hyeon Woo in the third singles.
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