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Treesa Jolly And Gayatri Gopichand Win Doubles’ Bronze At BWF World Championship
Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand win bronze in women’s doubles at the BWF World Championships, losing to China’s Liu Sheng Shu and Tan Ning.
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India’s Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand won the bronze medal in women’s doubles at the BWF World Championships after losing to China’s World Number one pair of Liu Sheng Shu and Tan Ning, 18-21, 21-13, and 21-8. It was their maiden medal at the competition after a hard-fought contest.
The unseeded Indian pair, cheered on by a passionate home crowd, made an electric start despite having won just one of their previous seven meetings against the Chinese. They raced to a 7-2 lead before Liu and Tan responded with six successive points. The Chinese pair eventually took control and led 11-7 at the interval, but India fought back with sharper attacking play.
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Treesa and Gayatri gradually found their rhythm, with a 31-shot rally helping them level at 12-12. Treesa was particularly aggressive, producing a series of attacking returns and a superb cross-court winner as India stayed within touching distance. At 18-18, another brilliant rally ended with a Treesa winner, before the Indians secured two game points. They converted the first when China sent a shot long, taking the opening game 21-18.
The Chinese, however, responded strongly after the change of ends.
India initially stayed in the contest, recovering from 3-0 down to level at 10-10. But Liu and Tan gradually regained control, while errors began to creep into the Indian game. A 49-shot rally ended with Treesa finding the net, and successive mistakes allowed China to move from 14-12 to 19-12. The Chinese closed out the second game 21-13 to force a decider.
China dominates deciding game
The third game began with another long exchange, with India winning a 56-shot rally to make it 2-2. China then changed the pace of the contest and quickly established a 6-2 advantage, with Liu repeatedly targeting Treesa.
India continued to fight but struggled to reproduce the intensity and attacking sharpness that had carried them through the opening game. Errors at the net and from the back court helped China extend its advantage to 11-5 at the interval.
Liu and Tan then surged further ahead, moving from 12-5 to 17-7 as the Indian challenge faded. The Chinese earned 12 match points and sealed victory on their second opportunity with a cross-court winner after one hour and 11 minutes.
The country last won a medal in the event in 2011, when Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa claimed bronze in London.
(With PTI Inputs)
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Ask News18The bronze medal secured by Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand marks India’s first women’s doubles medal at the BWF World Championships since 2011, ending a 15-year wait. This achievement extends India’s streak of winning at least one medal at every edition of the World Championships since 2011.
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