COPENHAGEN: Celebrity Indian shuttler HS Prannoy was once a tad dissatisfied to fail to spot a International championships gold medal however mentioned the bronze intended so much to him, calling it because the “first beginning step” on the coveted name.
Prannoy’s dream run on the International Championships ended after he misplaced 21-18 13-21 14-21 to international quantity 3 Kunlavut Vitidsarn of Thailand within the males’s singles semifinal to log out with a bronze medal.
The win prolonged India’s file of getting a minimum of one medallist within the showpiece since 2011.
“For me, this bronze medal approach such a lot in my view as a result of it’s been virtually 12 years within the circuit, you all the time need to have the ones giant medals on your hand,” he mentioned after the fit. “Sure, you’re dissatisfied for no longer getting the gold however the first beginning step is with bronze.”
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The 31-year-old from Kerala thanked the training workforce and his circle of relatives for backing him.
“A large number of other people has completed numerous exhausting paintings in the previous couple of years and numerous issues got here in position this week. Due to they all who’ve been operating day and night time with me in order that I will play higher and my complete circle of relatives backing me from house,” he mentioned.
“It isn’t simple since you are within the circuit all of the yr and rarely get time for circle of relatives and pal, infrequently it takes a load. So, a lot of these candy recollections are all the time just right, you’re really feel motivated to return and paintings, another way it’s actually difficult to do the entire thing.”
The 31-year-old Prannoy squandered a gap recreation merit and a 5-1 lead in the second one as Vitidsarn, a three-time former international junior champion, displayed his psychological fortitude and forged defence to seal a 2d successive ultimate spot.
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Prannoy was once getting into the fit after taking part in two three-game fits which lasted as regards to 70 mins and he admitted it took a toll on his frame.
“When you find yourself at the court docket you’re feeling you have got completed the whole thing however whilst you end off, you’re feeling you’ll want to have completed extra. Bodily I could not push thru as of late, the legs weren’t in nice form,” the arena quantity 9 mentioned.
India’s top-ranked males’s singles shuttler made a forged get started however indicators of exhaustion set in from the second one recreation.
“I used to be attempting exhausting from within, no longer letting pass simply however credit score to him he was once setting up trip steadily at a just right velocity and no longer making any simple mistakes at any level,” he mentioned.
“On the 3rd recreation, I misplaced that first part, it was once an important. You’ll be able to’t be down 5-1. I’ve to actually admire how my frame taking such fits, it isn’t simple to play 70 mins again to again for 4 days.
“He’s a lot more youthful, he is in a position to get well a lot sooner. However I’m actually pleased with the best way issues went this week.”
However the loss, it was once a super fulfillment for Prannoy as he changed into simplest the 5th Indian males’s singles participant to win a International Championships medal.
Kidambi Srikanth (silver), Lakshya Sen (bronze), B Sai Praneeth (bronze) and Prakash Padukone (bronze) are the opposite medallists in males’s singles.
COPENHAGEN: Celebrity Indian shuttler HS Prannoy was once a tad dissatisfied to fail to spot a International championships gold medal however mentioned the bronze intended so much to him, calling it because the “first beginning step” on the coveted name.
Prannoy’s dream run on the International Championships ended after he misplaced 21-18 13-21 14-21 to international quantity 3 Kunlavut Vitidsarn of Thailand within the males’s singles semifinal to log out with a bronze medal.
The win prolonged India’s file of getting a minimum of one medallist within the showpiece since 2011.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“For me, this bronze medal approach such a lot in my view as a result of it’s been virtually 12 years within the circuit, you all the time need to have the ones giant medals on your hand,” he mentioned after the fit. “Sure, you’re dissatisfied for no longer getting the gold however the first beginning step is with bronze.”
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The 31-year-old from Kerala thanked the training workforce and his circle of relatives for backing him.
“A large number of other people has completed numerous exhausting paintings in the previous couple of years and numerous issues got here in position this week. Due to they all who’ve been operating day and night time with me in order that I will play higher and my complete circle of relatives backing me from house,” he mentioned.
“It isn’t simple since you are within the circuit all of the yr and rarely get time for circle of relatives and pal, infrequently it takes a load. So, a lot of these candy recollections are all the time just right, you’re really feel motivated to return and paintings, another way it’s actually difficult to do the entire thing.”
The 31-year-old Prannoy squandered a gap recreation merit and a 5-1 lead in the second one as Vitidsarn, a three-time former international junior champion, displayed his psychological fortitude and forged defence to seal a 2d successive ultimate spot.
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Prannoy was once getting into the fit after taking part in two three-game fits which lasted as regards to 70 mins and he admitted it took a toll on his frame.
“When you find yourself at the court docket you’re feeling you have got completed the whole thing however whilst you end off, you’re feeling you’ll want to have completed extra. Bodily I could not push thru as of late, the legs weren’t in nice form,” the arena quantity 9 mentioned.
India’s top-ranked males’s singles shuttler made a forged get started however indicators of exhaustion set in from the second one recreation.
“I used to be attempting exhausting from within, no longer letting pass simply however credit score to him he was once setting up trip steadily at a just right velocity and no longer making any simple mistakes at any level,” he mentioned.
“On the 3rd recreation, I misplaced that first part, it was once an important. You’ll be able to’t be down 5-1. I’ve to actually admire how my frame taking such fits, it isn’t simple to play 70 mins again to again for 4 days.
“He’s a lot more youthful, he is in a position to get well a lot sooner. However I’m actually pleased with the best way issues went this week.”
However the loss, it was once a super fulfillment for Prannoy as he changed into simplest the 5th Indian males’s singles participant to win a International Championships medal.
Kidambi Srikanth (silver), Lakshya Sen (bronze), B Sai Praneeth (bronze) and Prakash Padukone (bronze) are the opposite medallists in males’s singles.