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Another clean sweep from the Indian men at Asia Championship

By: Swetha
Date: 08 Feb, 2018
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Men’s team led by Kidambi Srikanth at the Badminton Asia Team Championship, made another clean sweep by outplaying Maldives with 5-0 on Wednesday.


World No. 5 Srikanth started the proceedings by thrashing Shaheed Hussein Zayan with 21-5, 21-6 in the first singles match, before B Sai Praneeth took just 17 minutes to get the better of Ahmed Nibal with 21-10, 21-4.


The rest of the tie followed a similar script as Sameer Verma trounced with Mohamed Arsalaan Ali with 21-5, 21-1 to take straight 3-0 lead.


In the doubles matches, Indian men hardly broke a sweat.


In the first doubles match, the young lads Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty defeated Shaheed Hussein Zayan and Shaheem Hassan Afsheem with 21-8, 21-8 before Arjun MR teamed up with Shlok Ramachandran to tame the pair of Mohamed Arsalaan Ali and Ahmed Nibal with 21-2, 21-5.


Indian men contingent will now play against Indonesia on Thursday, while women will face the tough Japanese.




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