Syed Modi International badminton: Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand defend title

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Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly successful  enactment   during the Syed Modi International badminton tourney  successful  Lucknow.

Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly successful enactment during the Syed Modi International badminton tourney successful Lucknow. | Photo Credit: Sandeep Saxena

Defending champions Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand registered a warring three-game triumph implicit Japan's Kaho Osawa and Mai Tanabe to clasp the women's doubles rubric astatine the Syed Modi International Super 300 successful Lucknow connected Sunday (November 30,. 2025).

The top-seeded Indian duo produced an attacking masterclass to rally from a crippled down and outwit the satellite No. 35 Japanese brace 17-21 21-13 21-15 successful a pulsating 1 hr and 16-minute final.

The Indians were playing lone their 2nd lawsuit since Gayatri's instrumentality from a five-month enarthrosis wounded layoff.

The last began with a breathtaking 49-shot rally, mounting the code for a high-intensity contention arsenic some pairs fought bony and nail earlier Osawa and Tanabe edged up 6-3. A mates of crisp smashes from Treesa pulled the Indians level, and an Osawa forehand mistake helped them determination to 8-6.

The Japanese, however, regrouped to instrumentality a slender pb astatine the interval and maintained their clasp to agelong it to 18-15. A backhand cross-court instrumentality from Tanabe caught Gayatri disconnected guard, and different Indian mistake handed the Japanese 5 crippled points. Treesa and Gayatri saved two, but Tanabe closed retired the opener with a smash.

Switching sides brought a momentum displacement arsenic the Indians recovered their bushed and showed fantabulous anticipation to surge to 9-2. Though a fewer shots drifted into the net, they held an 11-5 vantage astatine the break, bolstered by different booming Treesa smash from the backcourt.

Treesa and Gayatri continued to dictate the rallies, marching to 17-9. Treesa's speedy racquet velocity and crisp question allowed her to rainfall down attacking returns, taking the Indians to 20-11. They squandered 2 crippled points earlier a agelong assistance from the Japanese forced the lucifer into the decider.

In the 3rd game, the Indians moved to 7-4 earlier miscommunication outgo them a fewer points. But crisp nett interceptions restored control, and a deceptive nett changeable from Treesa followed by different well-constructed constituent gave them a six-point cushion astatine the interval.

Osawa and Tanabe narrowed the shortage to 12-14, and aboriginal 13-15, but a fired up Treesa produced different disguised nett shot, and Gayatri unleashed a crisp smash arsenic the Indians closed successful connected the title.

A delicate driblet from Treesa, and a wide changeable from the Japanese handed India six lucifer points, and they converted connected the 2nd to clasp the crown.

Published - November 30, 2025 04:33 p.m. IST

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