Treesa & Gaytri survive a scare

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Treesa and Gayatri were made to enactment    for each   point.

Treesa and Gayatri were made to enactment for each point. | Photo Credit: SANDEEP SAXENA

Top seeds and defending champions were expected to breeze done the opening rounds of the Syed Modi India planetary 2025 badminton. Instead, the Indian brace was stretched and frightened earlier prevailing 19-21, 22-20, 21-9 successful its tourney opener present connected Tuesday.

As 1 of the fewer apical Indians successful enactment connected a time different dominated by qualification matches, the absorption was firmly connected Treesa and Gayatri but the overmuch lower-ranked Malaysians Cheng Su Hui and Tan Zhing Yi made them enactment for each constituent successful the archetypal 2 games. Ranked 80th successful the satellite to Treesa and Gaytri’s 14, the Malaysians raced to a 6-1 pb successful the opening crippled earlier the Indians fought backmost to marque it 12-12 but conceded the crippled with errors astatine the net.

The Indians decided to play a batch much attacking and reaped its reward thereafter contempt wasting 2 crippled points to instrumentality the lucifer into the decider and past dominated their bushed opponents to adjacent it out.

The different apical Indian pairs had casual outings against chap Indians. While second-seeded men’s squad of Pruthvi Krishnamurthy Roy and Sai Pratheek bushed Swarnaraj Bora and Nibir Ranjan 21-8, 21-17 successful little than half-an-hour, the fifth-ranked brace of Hariharan Amsakarunan and M.R. Arjun bushed Ayush Makhija and Sujey Tamboli 21-11, 21-13.

Singles main gully enactment volition statesman connected Wednesday with H.S. Prannoy and K. Srikanth taking connected chap Indians Shaswat Dalal and Kavin Thangam respectively, top-seeded Unnati Hooda up against Akarshi Kashyap and Nozumi Okuhara facing qualifier Adita Rao.

Published - November 25, 2025 06:27 p.m. IST

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