Aarhus (Denmark): Already up to the quarter-finals, the Indian man’s badminton team suffered a defeat in China’s formidable hand in his last group match from the Thomas Cup there on Thursday.
Indians thus completed their group involvement in second place behind China, against them against Denmark in the last eight stages on Friday.
Only a double pair of satwotikairaj ranking and Chirag Shetty can manage victory in the match against China when they beat him Ji Ting and Zhou Hao Dong 21-14, 21-14 in a 41 minute contest.
Winning with rankings and Duo Shetty encouraged the trust of the Indian team after Srikanth Kidambi who struggled to start the day for India with a loss of 12-21, 16-21 to Shi Yu Qi in 36 minutes.
Sameer Verma gave a difficult battle for Lu Guang Ju but finally lost a single match 21-14, 9-21, 22-24 after an hour and 23 minutes when India trailed 1-2.
Other double pairs from Mr.
Arjun and Dhruv Kapila went fighting 24-26, 19-21 for Liu Cheng and Wang Yi Lyu in 52 minutes before Kiran George lost to Li Shi Feng 15-21, 17-21 in 43 minutes of single match.
The defeat against China was the first for men’s team in the tournament.
It has defeated the Netherlands 5-0 on Sunday before telling the victory against Tahiti by the Margin identical on Tuesday to quarterfinals for the first quarterfinal of Thomas for the first time since 2010.
The women’s team played against Japan in the Uber Cup quarter-final match later that day .