India misplaced 2-3 to China within the semi-finals of the Badminton Asia Combined Staff Championships on the Dubai Exhibition Centre on Saturday.
India didn’t begin effectively as HS Prannoy misplaced 13-21, 15-21 to Lei Lanxi within the males’s singles contest earlier than former world champion PV Sindhu misplaced 9-21, 21-16, 18-21 to Gao Fangjie, handing the defending champions a 2-0 lead.
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The scratch males’s pair of Dhruv Kapila and Chirag Shetty and ladies’s doubles pairing of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand gained their matches to stage the competition at 2-all.
Tanisha Crasto and Ishaan Bhatnagar although misplaced the ultimate combined doubles contest. India settled for bronze whereas China will face South Korea within the closing on Sunday.
India misplaced within the quarter-finals within the match’s inaugural version in 2017 and didn’t make it out of the group stage within the second and former version in 2019.