Sathish Kumar in action versus South Korea at BAMTC 2025.Photo: Badminton Asia Sathish Kumar in action versus South Korea at BAMTC 2025.Photo: Badminton Asia

Indian shuttlers went down to South Korea 2-3 in a Group D tie of the Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championshippera play, but they had already made it to the quarterfinal after finishing second in the pool in Qingdao on Thursday. (More Badminton News)

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India, who had made a sizzling start on Wednesday defeating Macau 5-0, fought till the very end before the men's doubles pair of M.R. Arjun and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy lost the deciding rubber in straight games to Jin Yong and NA Sung Seung.

The mixed doubles pair of Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto started the proceedings by winning opening game 21-11, but lost the next two 12-21, 15-21 to go down in 56 minutes.

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India's top-seeded women's player here Malvika Bansod found world No. 19 Sim Yu Jin a very tough opponent to handle, as the youngster, runner-up in the 2022 edition of the Syed Modi International, went down without a fight 9-21, 10-21 in just 27 minutes.

The Harmanpreet Singh-led side scored its first goal just in the second minute of the match via Sukhjeet Singh. This was in fact the first significant chance created in the match by any side.

Both teams started off strong, looking to break each others' back line in the first quarter but no team were able to breach the barrier.

Chennai shuttler Sathish Karunakaran,jl7 casino however, pulled one back following a hard-fought win over Cho Geonyeop 17-21, 21-18, 21-19 in one hour 12 minutes, before the women's doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand, ranked ninth in the world, brought India on an even keel following a 19-21, 21-16, 21-11 win over Kim Min Ji and Kim Yu Jung.

The deciding fifth game, saw the men's doubles pair of M.R. Arjun and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy fight tooth and nail before losing to Sung Seung and Jin Yong 14-21, 15-23 in 53 minutes.

On Wednesday Chirag Shetty had paired up with Arjun to prevail over Chin Pon Pui and Kok Wen Vong of Macau in men's doubles. pera play