Jakarta: Women's doubles badminton players Treesa Jolly/Gayatri Gopichand were the only Indian representatives to qualify for the quarter-finals of the All England 2023. This positive trend was not followed by their compatriots such as Lakshya Sen, HS Prannoy , Kidambi Srikanth and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy. /Chirag Shetty as they fell in the second round final on Thursday March 16.

Quoted by ESPN, the last Indian hope successfully passed the second round after beating former world number one, Yuki Fukushima/Sayaka Hirota, with a final score of 21-14 and 24-22. Treesa/Gayatri lost a nine-point lead in the second game but managed to hold on to win the match.

These results continue the positive trend of Treesa/Gayatri during the Asian Mixed Team Badminton Championship and the National Championship last February. In the first match, Treesa/Gayatri also created a surprise by eliminating the Thai seventh seed, Jongkolphan Kititharakul/Rawinda Prajongjai.

Then, in the quarter-finals, Friday March 17 in the evening of WIB, Treesa/Gayatri will face the Chinese representatives, Li Wen Mei/Liu Xuan Xuan.

Meanwhile, Indian men's badminton player Lakshya Sen could not stem Anders Antonsen's resistance in the second half as he lost by a score of 13-21 and 15-21 in 52 minutes. This match was Antonsen's revenge event since he was defeated by Lakshya at the All England 2022.

India's defeat in the second round also came from Indian men's doubles Satwik/Chirag who faced Chinese representatives, Liang Wei Keng and Wang Chang. This happened even though Satwik/Chirag looked convincing at the start of the match.

On the same day, Indian men's singles HS Prannoy was defeated by Indonesian representative Anthony Sinisuka Ginting with a score of 20-22, 15-21 and 17-21. Former Indian world number one Kidambi Srikanth suffered a similar fate, losing 17-21, 15-21 to Japan's Kodai Naraoka. (Jennifer Carorine Gouw/ESPN)

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