Tokyo: Pramod Bhagat India and his colleague Palak Kohli qualified for mixed doubles semifinals, while three singles players, including Noida District Judge Yathiraj, also made the last four stages to continue the raging journey in the Badminton Paralympics competition on Friday.
Bhagat, who qualified for Men’s Singles SL3 event on Thursday, and Kohli beat Thailand Siripong Teamarrom and Nipada Saensupa 21-15, 21-19 in a 29-minute clash to complete the second in Group B.
Duo India will collide with Indonesian pairs Susanto and Leani Ratri in the semifinals on Saturday.
In Single Men, Suhas, Tarun Dhillon and Manoj Sarkar also managed to reach the semifinals on the day that was beneficial to India.
In class SL4, Suhas, World number 3, it took 19 minutes to get rid of Hary Susanto 21-6, 21-12 in Group A, while Tarun, the second seeded, recovered from mid-deterioration to defeat Shin Kyung Korea Hwan 21-18, 15 -21, 21-17 in Group B.
However, Suhas suffered losses 15-21, 17-21 against the top seed France Lucas Mazur and Tarun fell 19-21 9-21 to Fredy Setiawan Indonesia in their last group match later on .
In the semifinals, Suhas has been pitted against Setiawan, while Tarun will lock the horn with Mazur, a world champion twice.
Suhas had a disruption to one of his ankles, while Tarun had limited his knee movements after a severe injury he suffered at the age of eight.
In the SL3 class, Manoj received a 21-16 victory, 21-9 over Oleksandr Chyrkov Ukraine to reach the knockout stage after finishing in second place in Group A behind the world No.
1 Bhagat.
The 31-year-old player, who has contracted Polio on one, has lost to Bhagat in his opening match.
In the semifinals, Manoj will face Daniel Bethell United Kingdom, while Bhagat will take Daisuke Fujihara Japan on Saturday.
In the SH6 class, Krishna Nagar, the second seed, won 21-17, 21-14 above the Vitor of Brazil Goncalves Tavares in 27 minutes to victory both in many matches to the top B group B.
Krishna, who qualified for Semifina, will meet Coombs Krysten English in the knockout stage.
However, Kohli Young signed a woman’s Singles Su5 campaign with a loss of 11-21, 15-21 against Kameyama Kaede Japan in the quarter-finals.
Previously, Kohli, 19, and Parul Parmar, 48, suffered their second losses in the SL3-Su5 group A, down 12-21, 20-22 to the French Lenaig Morin and Faustine Noel.
In the SL classification, people with lower / lower / severe legs were allowed to compete, while SU refers to athletes with upper leg disorders.
After Doubles the mixture of winning, Bhagat said: “This is a difficult game and I am happy to be on the side of victory, palak and I focus and successfully run our plans.” I found myself very lucky to have qualified for 2 semifinals.
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All my focus now is a winning medal for India.
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