Tanisha Crasto and Shruti Mishra in action.© X / @ bai_media
India beat England 3-2 in its last Group D match to record a consolation victory in the BWF Sudirman Cup final in Xiamen, China on Thursday. India had undergone its second defeat on the trot after losing 1-4 against Indonesia at the Xiamen Fenghuang gymnasium to crash the race in the quarter-finals. The defeat came after a similar defeat of the 1-4 against Denmark in his group D opening last week. Indonesia and Denmark qualified for the quarterfinals of group D Car only the two best teams from each of the four groups will make the Cup with direct elimination.
Without losing anything, no. 44 Anupama Upadhyaya barely broke his sweat to take over the Miu Lin Ngan 21-12, classified lower, in the single female match which only lasted 41 minutes.
Satisfy Kumar Karunakaran then had to work hard for an hour and 13 minutes to exceed Harry Huang 18-21 22-20 21-13 to give India a 2-0 lead.
Then, the pair of female doubles of Tanisha Crasto and Shruti Mishra only took 42 minutes to beat the English pair of Lizzie Tolman and Estelle Van Leeuwen 21-17 21-17 to ensure the competition of India.
The Indians, however, lost the last two equality games, but that did not make a difference because they obtained the match after victories during the first three games.
In the male double match, the Indian pair of Hariharan Amsakarunan and Ruban Kumar Rethinasabapathi lost against Rory Easton and Alex Green 14-21 21-11 13-21 in 52 minutes.
In the last game without consequences of the day, the pair of Karunakaran and Crasto in Indian Double Indian Indian lost against Callum Hemming and Leeuwen 21-11, 13-21 22-24.
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