India created history by winning Thomas Cup in badminton raised the country’s pride
India created history by defeating 14-time champion Indonesia in the final of the Thomas Cup 2022 badminton tournament on Sunday. India managed to win this badminton tournament for the first time in 73 years. With this victory of India, sports fans on social media are praising the team’s players for their stellar performance.
Lakshya Sen, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty and Kidambi Srikanth won the match for India. India also won the second singles after singles, doubles. In this, Kindambi Srikanth defeated Jonathan Christie 21-15, 23-21. However, the Indian pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy lost the first round, but won the second and third rounds to win the match.
Lakshya Sen played an important role
Struggling to find momentum in the knockout stage, Lakshya performed as expected in the most crucial bout as he bounced back from a loss in the first singles match to defeat world No. 5 Anthony Sinisuka Ginting 8-21 21-17 21- Beating 16 gave India a 1-0 lead.
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Pure show of grit and determination & India becomes the #ThomasCup champion for the 1️⃣st time in style, beating 14 times champions Indonesia 🇮🇩 3-0 in the finals 😎
It's coming home! 🫶🏻#TUC2022#ThomasCup2022#ThomasUberCups#IndiaontheRise#Badminton pic.twitter.com/GQ9pQmsSvP
— BAI Media (@BAI_Media) May 15, 2022
Good comeback of Satwik and Chirag
The country’s top men’s doubles pair of Satwik and Chirag then came back from adversity to save four match points in the second game to beat the pair of Mohammad Ahsan and Kevin Sanjay Sukamuljo 18-21 23-21 21-19. Made the lead 2-0.
Brilliant performance by Srikkanth
In the second singles, Srikanth put up a stellar performance to beat Asian Games gold medalist Jonathan Christie 21-15 23-21 in straight games in 48 minutes to give India a 3-0 lead.
