Indian junior badminton players beat Slovenia 5-0 in the final group match
The Indian team thrashed Slovenia 5-0 in their fourth and final Group B match at the World Junior Mixed Team Badminton Championships in Santander, Spain on Wednesday. Mixed doubles pair of Vignesh Thathinani and Srinidhi Narayanan started with a 21-11 21-9 win over Jiga Podgoresk and Spela Alik. Aayush Shetty won the men’s singles 21-5 21-5 over Kevin Lynn Lennarsich.
The pair of Nicolas Raj and Tushar Suveer turned India’s favor by defeating Anel Hak Gyorkos and Mark Corosa 21-15, 21-14 in the men’s doubles match. Rakshita Ramraj registered a 21-4 21-4 win over Anja Jordan in the women’s singles. Women’s doubles pair of Shreya Balaji and Srinidhi Narayanan defeated Nika Bedich and Kim Matovic 21-9, 21-6. India thus finished second in Group B by three points. The team won over Iceland, Australia and Slovenia. The team’s only defeat came from group toppers China.
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China is the most successful team of the tournament having won 13 titles. The Indian team will now play playoff matches against the second-placed teams from the other groups to finish best of nine to 16. The team finished 12th in 2019 and the team’s best performance was fourth in the 2008 stage.
