TOKYO: The trioka India Pramod Bhagat, Suhas Yathiraj and Krishna Nagar sailed into the men’s final singles badminton event in each classification in Paralympic Tokyo on Saturday.
Among other Indians in fray, Manoj Sarkar and Tarun Dhillon suffered contrasting semifinal losses in their respective.
The duo will now play in the bronze medal play-off.
33 years Bhagat, the current world no 1, ensuring the victory 21-11, 21-16 over Japan’s Daisuke SL3 Fujihara semifinal first class lasts 36 minutes.
top seed India, the current world and Asian champion, will lock horns with England Daniel Bethell in the summit clash in the future.
In class SL4, Suhas is Fredy Setiawan beat Indonesia 21-9, 21-15 in 31 minutes in the first semifinal.
The Noida District Judge will face top-seeded Lucas Mazur of France in the final on Sunday.
Krishna, the second seed, also dished out a superlative performance, outplaying England Krysten Coombs 21-10, 21-11 in the semifinals SH6 class.
India 22 years will be debated by the Hong Kong Man Chu Kai in the final on Sunday.
In the other semi-final SL4 class, Mazur successfully prevented the spirit of Tarun, claiming a narrow 21-16, 16-21, 21-18 win over second-seeded Indian in an exhausting semifinal that lasted one hour and three minutes Yoyogi National Stadium.
The 27-year-old player from Hisar will face Setiawan in the bronze medal play-off on Sunday.
Manoj also can not get into all sorts of rhythm against the second seed Bethell, down 8-21, 10-21 in another men’s singles semi-finals SL3 class.
The 31-year-old will now play Fujihara in the bronze medal play-off later.
Earlier in the day, with only half of the court used in the classification SL3, Bhagat and Fujihara involved in a lot of long rallies and India came on top most of the time.
Bhagat, the top seed, trailed 2-4 early in the opening game but a series of overhead drip to help him claw back.
8-8 before the Indian duo entered the interval at 11-8.
After the break, he continued to run well and eventually pocketed the opening game with six straight points.
It shows Bhagat in the second game as well as India led all the way to come up trumps.
Bhagat will be paired with Palak Kohli for the mixed doubles semifinals SL3-SU5 them at a later date.
“It’s a big game against Fujihara, he pushed me with some great pictures.
But I have a plan and I executed it very well.
I am glad I have reached the final of the Paralympic my girl but the work was not finished,” Bhagat said after the game.
In the classification SL, people with standing / lower limb disorders / severe allowed to compete.
SH6 classification refers to short stature disorders.