Wednesday’s first match saw 86th-ranked mixed doubles team Leong Iok Chong and Ng Weng Chi defeated 21-10, 21-9. Then, in the men’s singles, Pui Pang Fong lost 21-16, 21-12, while 16-year-old Hao Wai Chan lost 21-15, 21-9 in the women’s singles. India walloped Macao 5-0 in the South Asian team’s group opener of this year’s […]
Wednesday’s first match saw 86th-ranked mixed doubles team Leong Iok Chong and Ng Weng Chi defeated 21-10, 21-9. Then, in the men’s singles, Pui Pang Fong lost 21-16, 21-12, while 16-year-old Hao Wai Chan lost 21-15, 21-9 in the women’s singles.
India walloped Macao 5-0 in the South Asian team’s group opener of this year’s
Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships, held in Qingdao, Shandong Province, on Wednesday – following the SAR’s defeat by South Korea on Tuesday.
The semi-finals of the championships are scheduled for this Saturday and the finals will take place on Sunday.
The Indian team, which earned bronze in the championships’ last iteration in 2023, is set to face two-time runner-up South Korea today. The two countries’ teams made up the four-group tournament’s Group D, along with Macao.
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The two best performing teams from each group will move forward into the quarter-finals on Friday.
In the men’s doubles, Pui Chi Chon and Vong Kok Weng were defeated 21-15, 21-9. India’s clean-sweep was finalised in the women’s doubles, where Ng Weng Chi and Pui Chi Wa lost 21-10, 21-5.
