Birmingham [UK], March 17 (ANI): India's Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly defeated China's Li Wen Mei and Liu Xuanxuan 21-14, 18-21, 21-12 within the girls's doubles quarterfinals on the All England Open 2023 to make it to the semis in Birmingham on Friday.
The world No. 17 Indian pair had reached the semi-finals of the final version of the All England Open as effectively however misplaced to China's Shu Xian Zhang and Yu Zheng.
On Friday, Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly gave the impression to be in good type as they took the primary recreation 21-14 with ease.
The Indian badminton gamers stumbled in the midst of the match after gaining an early lead, permitting the Chinese language pair to scale back their lead. The Indians, nonetheless, made a powerful comeback and received the primary recreation.
The 2 groups performed shot-for-shot within the second recreation, however Li Wen Mei and Liu Xuanxuan gained the higher hand within the match's vital ultimate minutes to power a decider.
Gopichand and Jolly got here out robust and shortly constructed a 10-2 benefit within the decisive ultimate recreation. From that time on, the younger Indian duo moved to safe one other spot within the semi-finals whereas the Chinese language girls had been consistently taking part in catch-up.
Gopichand and Jolly will meet the winner of the competition between South Koreans Baek Ha Na and Lee So Hee and Indonesia's Apriyani Rahayu and Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti of their last-four match.
The one Indians nonetheless competing on the All England Open 2023 are Gopichand and Jolly after final yr's finalist Lakshya Sen misplaced to Anders Antonsen on Thursday. HS Prannoy misplaced to Indonesian Anthony Sinisuka Ginting.
Earlier, the boys's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty had been ousted by Liang Wei Keng and Wang Chang of China within the spherical of 16.
Indian badminton star and two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu was knocked out within the first spherical whereas former world No. 1 Saina Nehwal had pulled out of the match on the opening day. (ANI)
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