India cruises into quarter-finals after beating Tahiti 5-0 in Thomas Cup

Aarhus (Denmark), Oct 13: Continuing their dominant streak in the Thomas Cup event, Team India enjoyed a comfortable outing in the badminton tournament as they thrashed the team from Tahiti by 5-0 here. With this win, India has stormed into the quarter-finals of the tournament.

 

 

 

 

For the first match of the tie, the 2019 World Badminton Championships bronze medallist B Sai Praneeth was the first to take the court. He successfully beat Louis Beaubio 21-5, 21-6. Later, Sameer Verma easily thrashed Remi Rossi 21-12, 21-12 for India.

 

 

 

India's Kiran George then registered a 21-4, 21-2 win over Elias Maublanc to seal the tie for his side. All it took was 15 minutes for the Indian shuttler to get the job done.

 

 

Having sealed the tie with a 3-0 lead, the Indians never took their foot off the paddle as the doubles pair of Krishna Garag and Vishnu Panjala beat Glen Lefoll and Remi Rossi 21-8, 21-7 while the Tokyo Olympian Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy got the better of Elias Maublanc and Heiva Yvonet 21-5, 21-3 in the other two matches of the tie.

 

India will now play China in the final group match on Thursday.