World Junior Championships: India beat SL for second win

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India produced different objective show against Sri Lanka successful their Group H clash to inch person to the knock-out stages of the mixed squad lawsuit of the BWF World Junior Badminton Championships for the Suhandinata Cup present connected Tuesday (October 7, 2025).

India, the 2nd seeds and steadfast favourites to apical Group H, lived up to expectations with a 45-27, 45-21 triumph implicit Sri Lanka, who had edged the United Arab Emirates successful a adjacent necktie connected Monday.

Playing connected the adjacent tribunal to the Koreans, the Indian squad hardly broke immoderate sweat contempt the squad absorption fielding a caller clump of players who didn't get a accidental to play successful the lucifer against Nepal .

Lalthazuala Hmar gave the squad a assured start, beating Keneth Aruggoda 9-2 successful the boy’s singles and Bhavya Chhabra and Mithileish P. Krishnan extending the pb to 18-6 against Sanuda Ariyasinghe and Thisath Rupathunga.

It was lone girl’s singles subordinate Rakshitha Sree, who was playing the squad relay-scoring format for the archetypal time, struggled to get going against Ranithma Liyanage and was trailing 3-8 earlier winning six of the adjacent 7 points to instrumentality the people to 36-21.

C. Lalramsanga and Taarini Suri, Junior Grand Prix finalist successful Pune, past wrapped up the acceptable 45- 27, beating Aruggoda and Liyanage 9-6.

Rounak Chouhan started the proceedings for India successful the 2nd acceptable and though the hosts played a wholly caller enactment up successful the set, the result was connected akin lines arsenic they wrapped up the necktie with a 45-21 triumph successful the 2nd set.

Results (Until league 2): Group A: Japan bt Ireland 2-0 (45-22, 45-16); Thailand bt Portugal 2-0 (45-16, 45-23) Group B: France bt Egypt 2-0 (45-25, 45-34); USA vs Norway 2-0 (45-18, 45-21) Group D: China bt England 2-0 (45-22, 45-19), Turkiye bt Ghana 2-0 (45-11, 45-27) Group E: Denmark bt Brazil 2-0 (45-43, 45-35) Group F: Philippines bt Hong Kong China 2-1 (42-45, 45-28, 45-43) Group G: Korea bt Bhutan 2-0 (45-5, 45-17), Romania bt Poland 2-1 (42-45, 45-39, 45-41) Group H: India bt Sri Lanka 2-0 (45-27, 45-21); UAE bt Nepal 2-0 (45-29, 45-18).

Published - October 08, 2025 02:40 americium IST

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