PV Sindhu, Lakshya Sen, and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty passed India 3 gold medals at the ultimate day of the Commonwealth Video games.
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty pose with their CWG gold medal. (AP Photograph)
HIGHLIGHTSSatwiksairaj and Chirag changed into first Indian males’s doubles pair to win CWG goldThis is the primary time that India received 3 badminton gold medals on the GamesPV Sindhu and Lakshya Sen received gold medals in ladies’s and males’s singles respectively
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy known as India’s gold medal end in 3 occasions on the Commonwealth Video games the brand new starting of badminton within the country.
Rankireddy along side Chirag Shetty changed into the primary Indian males’s doubles pair to win gold medal on the Video games. They defeated England’s Ben Lane and Sean Vendy in immediately video games, 21-15, 21-13 within the ultimate.
That is the primary time that India controlled to win 3 badminton gold medals on the Commonwealth Video games. The opposite two who received gold are PV Sindhu (ladies’s singles) and Lakshya Sen (males’s singles).
“It is a nice feeling, it is a new starting. India had by no means received gold in males’s doubles. It is nice feeling lets do it and can proceed with this. It is an unbelievable day for the badminton avid gamers. With Sindhu successful gold then we, so there is not any taking a look again now,” Rankireddy advised India Nowadays.
Chirag Shetty echoed his doubles spouse’s phrases, and added that when the Indian workforce received silver, everybody sought after to turn out themselves of their people and sought after not anything not up to gold.
“After the workforce tournament (silver), everyone, no longer simply me and Satwik, Lakshya, Srikanth, Sindhu, Treesa sought after to turn out it in people and sought after to get that gold. It could not have got any higher. Out of five we received 3 so it’s merely impressive,” Shetty stated.
PV Sindhu defeated the 2014 CWG champion Michelle Li of Canada 21-15, 21-13 to win her maiden gold medal on the Video games in ladies’s singles. Sindhu had misplaced to compatriot Saina Nehwal within the ultimate of the 2018 Gold Coast Video games to accept silver.
Lakshya Sen got here from at the back of to overcome Malaysia’s Ng Tze Yong 19-21, 21-9, 21-16 within the ultimate of guys’s singles. This was once Lakshya’s first CWG gold and sooner than him best 3 Indians received the CWG males’s singles titles – Prakash Padukone (1978), Syed Modi (1982) and Parupalli Kashyap (2014).
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