Treesa Jolly (R) and Gayatri Gopichand pose for a photograph within the ladies’s doubles quarter-final match towards China’s Zhang Shuxian and Jia Yifan on the BWF World Championships at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium, in New Delhi
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When unsure, assault. Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand caught to the mantra whatever the scoreline and reaped the rewards, assuring themselves of a maiden medal on the badminton World championships right here on Friday.
Their 16-21, 21-15, 21-13 victory towards the Chinese language World No. 4 Jia Yifan & Zhang Shuxian within the quarterfinals on the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium got here in 70 minutes. It was their third massive scalp in as many matches after ousting the World No. 17 and World No. 7 pairs earlier.
Within the course of, the unseeded, unfancied duo additionally turned the primary Indian ladies’s pair to do make it to the Worlds semifinals since Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa’s historic bronze in 2011. In actual fact that medal began India’s streak of successful a minimum of one medal in each version since then.
It will even be the one medal for India this time after two-time bronze medallists Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty misplaced to the World No. 3 Chinese language pair of Wei Keng Liang and Chang Wang 21-18, 21-9 in simply 35 minutes.
Ranked thirty ninth, Treesa and Gayatri trailed 6-0 within the opening recreation earlier than preventing again to shut the hole to 9-8. They finally misplaced 21-16 however at no level did it appear to be they have been prepared to surrender.
Gayatri being fast and busy on the web, smashed cross-court winners and continuously set Treesa up for the winners.
The 2 went from 7-10 to 13-10 within the second recreation and, with nothing to lose, pushed onerous. They minimize down the unforced errors and saved it tight, forcing Yifan, a 4 time World champion and the reigning Olympic champion, to conceding factors and took the match into the decider.
Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand in motion towards China’s Zhang Shuxian and Jia Yifan within the ladies’s doubles quarter-final match of the BWF World Championships at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium, in New Delhi
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Thereafter it was India all the way in which. Treesa and Gayatri raced to an 11-5 lead earlier than change of ends and closed out the tie 21-13.
Satwik and Chirag, in the meantime, had their probabilities within the opening recreation and even led 18-16 earlier than the opponents reeled off 5 factors to win 21-18. The flat drives concentrating on the Indians’ our bodies meant Satwik and Chirag have been at all times cramped for area.
Wei and Chang’s lightening fast returns, coupled with retrievals from all around the court docket made it inconceivable for Satwik and Chiraj to both raise or fall again on their trademark smashes to get factors because the Chinese language wrapped up the match in fast time.
The outcomes (quarterfinals): Males: Victor Lai (Can) bt Rasmus Gemke (Den) 21-19, 21-18; Alex Lanier (Fra) bt Kunlavut Vitidsarn (Tha) 19-21, 21-16, 21-16; Kodai Naraoka (Jpn) bt Anders Antonsen (Den) 21-19, 21-15.
Doubles: Wei Keng Liang & Chang Wang (Chn) bt Satwiksairaj Rankireddy & Chirag Shetty 21-18, 21-9; Kim Received Ho & Website positioning Seung Jae (Kor) bt Sze Fei Goh & Nur Izzuddin (Mas) 21-16, 21-16; Aaron Chia & Wooi Yik Soh (Mas) bt Ke Yuan Hu & Xiang Yi Lin (Chn) 21-11, 21-17; Jhe-Huei Lee & Po-Hsuan Yang (Tpe) bt Fajar Alfian & Muhammad Shohibul Fikri (Ina) 21-19, 21-16.
Girls: An Se Younger (Kor) bt Yue Han (Chn) 21-19, 21-12; Pornpawee Chochuwong (Tha) w/o Nozomi Okuhara (Jpn); Akane Yamaguchi (Jpn) bt Michelle Li (Can) 21-17, 21-10; Wang Zhi Yi (Chn) bt Line Christophersen (Den) 21-10, 21-7.
Doubles: Treesa Jolly & Gayatri Gopichand bt Yi Fan Jia & Shu Xian Zhang (Chn) 16-21, 21-15, 21-13; Baek Ha Na & Lee So Hee (Kor) bt Febriana Dwipuji Kusuma & Meilysa Trias Puspitasari (Mas) 21-11, 21-11; Sheng Shu Liu & Ning Tan (Chn) bt Nga Ting Yeung & Pui Lam Yeung (Tpe) 21-14, 21-17; Yi Jing Li & Xu Min Luo (Chn) bt Rachel Rose & Febi Setianingrum (Ina) 21-13, 21-14.
Blended doubles: Zhen Bang Jiang & Ya Xin Wei (Chn) bt Xin Wa Guo & Fang Hui Chen (Chn) 21-13, 21-17; Thom Gicquel & w/o Dechapol Puavaranukroh & Supissara Paewsampran (Tha); Yan Zhe Feng & Chi Zhang (Chn) & Dong Ping Huang bt Xing Cheng & Chi Zhang (Chn) 18-21, 21-10, 21-15; Amri Syahnawi & Nita Marwah (Ina) bt Po-Hsuan Yang & Ling Fang Hu (Tpe) 21-18, 21-9.
Printed – August 21, 2026 04:32 pm IST
