Badminton Asia Team Championship 2026: Indian Women And Men’s Team Starts On Winning Note
Badminton Asia Team Championship 2026: Indian Women
And Men’s Team Starts On Winning Note
The Indian
women’s team and men’s began the Badminton Asia Team Championship with
contrasting style on the opening day played at Qingdao, China on 4th
February 2026.
Indian
Women’s Team Blank Myanmar
It was a
dominating performance by Indian women’s team in their first Group Y fixture
against Myanmar.
Tanvi
Sharma began India’s campaign with a dominating win over Thet Htzar Thuzar in
the first women’s singles. Tanvi looked in complete control putting pressure on
her opponent winning with a scoreline of 21-13, 21-16.
Santosh
Ramraj cruised past her opponent Eaint Chit Poo in the second women’s singles.
Ramraj showed domination to register comfortable 21-12, 21-6 win.
Malvika
Bansod put on a dominating display to register a commanding 21-9, 21-12 win
over Lin Lin Htet in the third women’s singles match.
Priya Konjenbgam/Shruti
Mishra defeated Su Latt/Thet Htzar Thuzar in the first doubles with a comfortable
scoreline of 21-15, 21-16 to give India 4-0 lead.
Tressa
Jolly/Gayatri Gopichand register a dominating win over Lin Lin Htet and Eaint
Chit Poo in two straight games of 21-8, 21-6 to make it 5-0.
With this
win, the Indian women’s team made it into the quarterfinals of prestigious tournament.
They will face Thailand in their last league match tomorrow.
Scoreline
of Indian women’s team against Myanmar.
1. Tanvi Sharma defeated Thet Htzar
Thuzar (Women’s Singles)- 21-13, 21-16
2. Santosh Ramraj defeated Eaint Chit
Poo (Women’s Singles)- 21-12, 21-6
3. Malvika Bansod defeated Lin Lin Htet
(Women’s Singles)- 21-9, 21-12
4. Priya Konjenbgam/ Shruti Mishra
defeated Su Latt/Thet Htzar Thuzar (Women’s Doubles)- 21-15, 21-16
5. Tressa Jolly/Gayatri Gopichand defeated
Lin Lin Htet/Eaint Chit Poo (Men’s Doubles)- 21-8, 21-6.
Indian men’s team edge past Singapore in a
thriller
The Indian men’s team started the tournament
with a thrilling 3-2 win over Singapore.
Lakshya Sen suffered loss to Loh Kiean Yew in
three games. The first game was a closely fought affair with both players
fighting for each point before Loh took slender 11-9 lead. After the break, Loh
dominated the play to win the first game by 21-16.
The second game saw Lakshya Sen storming back
into the contest. Lakshya Sen led 11-7 at the break before Loh fought back
strongly, before Sen held onto his nerves to win by 21-19. Loh looked in
complete control in the deciding game putting consistent pressure on Sen to win
the decider by 21-16 to give Singapore 1-0 lead.
The men’s doubles pairing of Satwik/Chirag
Shetty dominated their opponents Eng Koh and Junsuke Kobo in two straight
games. Satwik/Chirag made light work of their opponents with 21-10, 21-8 win to
make it 1-1.
Ayush Shetty registered comfortable win over Jason
Teh in the second men’s singles. Despite being on the backfoot, Shetty fought
back strongly to take first game at 21-17. It was a closely fought affair in
the second game at 6-6 before Ayush took 6 successive points to win by 21-15 to
give India 2-1 lead.
Sai Pratheek/Roy suffered loss to NGE Joo Jie
and Donovan Willard in three games. Sai and Roy produced dominating performance
in the first game winning with comfortable 21-8.
Joo and Donovan made a tremendous fightback to
win the next two games by 23-21, 22-20 to make it 2-2 for Singapore.
Kidambi Srikanth register a dominating win over
Jia Wei Joel in two straight games. Srikanth put on dominating display with 6
successive points which put him comfortable position to win first game by
21-15.
The second game was a closely fought affair
with both players fighting for each point but Srikanth experience helped him to
win by 21-16 and seal the tie with 3-2 scoreline.
They will face Japan in the second Group game
to decide the table topper.
Results of Indian men’s team against Singapore.
1. Lakshya Sen lost to Loh Kiean Yew (Men’s
Singles)- 16-21-, 21-19, 16-21.
2. Satwik/Chirag Shetty defeated Eng
Koh/Kobo (Men’s Doubles)- 21-10, 21-8
3. Ayush Shetty defeated Jason Teh (Men’s
Singles)- 21-17, 21-15
4. Sai Pratheek/Roy lost to NGE Joo Jie
and Donovan Willard (Men’s Doubles)- 21-8, 21-23, 20-22
5. Kidambi Srikanth defeated Jia Wel
Joel (Men’s Singles)- 21-15, 21-16.
Indian men's team starts the BACT 2026 with 3-2 win over Singapore.
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