{"id":12104,"date":"2026-05-03T10:06:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/thomas-cup-france-knock-india-out-badminton-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T10:06:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:36:35","slug":"thomas-cup-france-knock-india-out-badminton-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/thomas-cup-france-knock-india-out-badminton-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Cup: France knock India out | Badminton News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130727067,imgsize-42846,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/kidambi-srikanth-0305-s.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Cup: France knock India out\" title=\"Kidambi Srikanth (Image credit: BAI) \" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Kidambi Srikanth (Image credit: BAI) \">Kidambi Srikanth (Image credit: BAI) <\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>France are on a roll at the Thomas Cup. After knocking out 14-time champions Indonesia in the group stage, France drubbed 2022 champions India 3-0 by winning all three singles.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"1\"\/>Christo Popov drubbed Ayush Shetty 21-11, 21-9 to give France an early lead. Alex Lanier also registered a straight-game victory, defeating <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/kidambi-srikanth\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Kidambi Srikanth<\/a> 21-18, 21-16 to make it 2-0 for France. In a do-or-die contest for India, <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/hs-prannoy\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">HS Prannoy<\/a> began well before losing steam against Toma Junior Popov and lost 19-21, 16-21.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>In the other semifinal, China won their first two matches against Denmark.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>Popov was at his dominant best against Ayush throughout the 39-minute contest. The reigning World Tour Finals champion dominated the net and targeted the backhand corner of Ayush with repeated smashes and controlled the pace of the game.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Ayush, who turns 21 on Sunday, admitted that Christo was too good. \u201cI am disappointed with my performance today. <!-- -->Christo was solid today&#8230;He pace was high and he put a lot of pressure on me,\u201d Ayush said. \u201cHe was using a lot of deception. It caught me off guard. I was not stable on the court..He just outclassed me today,\u201d Ayush added.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>India suffered a blow much before the contest started as Lakshya Sen was ruled out of the semifinal due to a swollen right elbow, which he injured while diving in the threegame quarterfinals on Friday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>\u201cLakshya sustained an impact to his elbow following an intense quarterfinal match that involved multiple dives. Following a thorough evaluation by the team\u2019s medical staff, the decision has been taken as a precautionary measure to allow Lakshya adequate recovery time and ensure he is in optimal condition for the final, should India progress,\u201d said BAI general secretary Sanjay Mishra in a statement.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>Korea to face China in Uber final<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>Meanwhile, South Korea will face China in the Uber Cup finals. In the semifinals, South Korea defeated Indonesia 3-1 and China blanked Japan 3-0.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/badminton\/thomas-cup-france-knock-india-out\/articleshow\/130727072.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kidambi Srikanth (Image credit: BAI) France are on a roll at the Thomas Cup. After knocking out 14-time champions Indonesia in the group stage, France drubbed 2022 champions India 3-0 by winning all three singles.Christo Popov drubbed Ayush Shetty 21-11, 21-9 to give France an early lead. Alex Lanier also registered a straight-game victory, defeating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}