The Indian males’s badminton crew started its Thomas Cup marketing campaign in an emphatic method, thrashing Germany 5-0 on Sunday.
World Championships bronze medallist Lakshya Sen began the continuing with a simple 21-16 21-13 win over world no 64 Max Weisskirchen.
The doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirsg Shetty needed to dig deep as they had been stretched to a 3 gamer by Jones Ralfy Jansen and Marvin Seidel.
But the Indians managed to prevail 21-15 10-21 21-13 within the match lasting near an hour.
World no 11 Kidambi Srikanth then eked out a 18-21 21-9 21-11 win over Kai Schafer after a sluggish begin to give India an unassailable 3-0 lead within the Group C tie.
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MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila handed Bjarne Geiss and Jan Colin Voelker a 25-23 21-15 defeat within the second males’s doubles tie as Indian continued its dominant show.
HS Prannoy, ranked twenty third on the planet, then hardly broke a sweat as he accomplished a 5-0 whitewash of Germany, with a 21-9 21-9 win over Matthias Kicklitz.
It was an ideal begin for the Indian males’s crew, which is looking for its maiden medal on the event.
No Indian males’s crew has ever reached the semifinals of the Thomas Cup.
Last 12 months, the lads’s crew had signed off its marketing campaign on the quarterfinal stage.
Later within the day, the Indian girls’s crew will open its marketing campaign towards Canada in Group D.
