Chengdu (China): Defending champions India's hopes of entering the Thomas Q knockout stage as group toppers were dashed by a clinical Indonesia, who ran out 4-1 winners in their final pool match here on Wednesday.
Both India and Indonesia have already qualified for the quarter-finals of the prestigious competition by winning their first two matches, but will enter the knockouts later as Group C leaders.
The biggest positive for India in this defeat was that HS Prannoy returned to winning ways after recovering from health concerns.
The rematch of the 2022 Thomas Cup Final gave Indonesia the chance to exact revenge for their 0-3 defeat, and they did just that with an excellent performance.
In men's singles, India's number one player Prannoy made a brilliant comeback by defeating Anthony Ginting 13-21, 21-1, 21-12 in the opening match and took the team 1-0 ahead.But I knew if I hung with him until 13-all, 14-all in the second game, I had a chance."
Similar to Prannoy's match, the pair of Satwiksairaj and Chirag lost the opening game to the Indonesian pair of Fikri and Maulana in the first men's doubles encounter.
But the Indian pair fought back to win the second game and level the score.
However, the Indonesians had the last laugh after a heroic effort from Satwiksairaj and Chirag prevailed as they won the third game and leveled the match at 1-1 in the Group C encounter.
After trailing for a long time, Satwiksairaj and Chirag saved an incredible 12 mat points before Fikri turned it around in the 13th to turn the issue in their favour.It proved to be one of the most memorable matches as Indonesia, the most successful team of the tournament, showed that their doubles game is still strong.
The onus was on Sen to help India regain the lead and while he lost the first game of the second men's singles 18-21 to Christie, the 22-year-old Indian took the lead by winning the second game 21-16. Decisive.
But the young Indian shuttler failed to continue the same streak as Christie took the lead when it mattered most and scored a 21-17 winner in the third decider to put Indonesia ahead 2-1.
Indonesia took firm control of the tie in the fourth match (second match of men's doubles) and the Indian pair of Dhruv Kapila and Sai Prateek had their work cut out against the dogged Carnando and Marthin.
But they could not perform well and lost the match in straight games and so did Srikanth.Meanwhile, it was confirmed that the Indian women's team will face Japan in the quarter-finals of the Uber Cup.
Both India and Indonesia have already qualified for the quarter-finals of the prestigious competition by winning their first two matches, but will enter the knockouts later as Group C leaders.
The biggest positive for India in this defeat was that HS Prannoy returned to winning ways after recovering from health concerns.
The rematch of the 2022 Thomas Cup Final gave Indonesia the chance to exact revenge for their 0-3 defeat, and they did just that with an excellent performance.
In men's singles, India's number one player Prannoy made a brilliant comeback by defeating Anthony Ginting 13-21, 21-1, 21-12 in the opening match and took the team 1-0 ahead.But I knew if I hung with him until 13-all, 14-all in the second game, I had a chance."
Similar to Prannoy's match, the pair of Satwiksairaj and Chirag lost the opening game to the Indonesian pair of Fikri and Maulana in the first men's doubles encounter.
But the Indian pair fought back to win the second game and level the score.
However, the Indonesians had the last laugh after a heroic effort from Satwiksairaj and Chirag prevailed as they won the third game and leveled the match at 1-1 in the Group C encounter.
After trailing for a long time, Satwiksairaj and Chirag saved an incredible 12 mat points before Fikri turned it around in the 13th to turn the issue in their favour.It proved to be one of the most memorable matches as Indonesia, the most successful team of the tournament, showed that their doubles game is still strong.
The onus was on Sen to help India regain the lead and while he lost the first game of the second men's singles 18-21 to Christie, the 22-year-old Indian took the lead by winning the second game 21-16. Decisive.
But the young Indian shuttler failed to continue the same streak as Christie took the lead when it mattered most and scored a 21-17 winner in the third decider to put Indonesia ahead 2-1.
Indonesia took firm control of the tie in the fourth match (second match of men's doubles) and the Indian pair of Dhruv Kapila and Sai Prateek had their work cut out against the dogged Carnando and Marthin.
But they could not perform well and lost the match in straight games and so did Srikanth.Meanwhile, it was confirmed that the Indian women's team will face Japan in the quarter-finals of the Uber Cup.
