{"id":8019,"date":"2026-04-24T16:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/thomas-cup-satwik-chirag-ayush-shetty-star-as-india-down-canada-3-1-in-opener-badminton-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T16:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:20:16","slug":"thomas-cup-satwik-chirag-ayush-shetty-star-as-india-down-canada-3-1-in-opener-badminton-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/thomas-cup-satwik-chirag-ayush-shetty-star-as-india-down-canada-3-1-in-opener-badminton-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Cup: Satwik-Chirag, Ayush Shetty star as India down Canada 3-1 in opener | Badminton News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\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-130491378,imgsize-44526,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/ayush-shetty.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Cup: Satwik-Chirag, Ayush Shetty star as India down Canada 3-1 in opener\" title=\"Ayush Shetty \" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: India made a strong start to their Thomas Cup campaign, beating Canada 3-1 in their opening group match on Friday. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"1\"\/>Despite an early setback, the team quickly bounced back with solid performances in both singles and doubles to take control of the tie and seal victory comfortably.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>India were on the back foot after Lakshya Sen lost a hard-fought match to Victor Lai. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>But the momentum shifted when the experienced doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty stepped in. They dominated their match, winning comfortably and bringing India back into the contest with authority.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>From there, the younger players ensured India stayed ahead. Ayush Shetty delivered a confident performance, defeating Brian Yang in straight games to give India the lead. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Soon after, the doubles pair of Hariharan Amsakarunan and M R Arjun wrapped up the tie with a convincing win, making the final match unnecessary.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>With the result already decided, Kidambi Srikanth was set to play a dead rubber. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>Meanwhile, attention will also turn to the Indian women\u2019s team, who are scheduled to begin their campaign against Denmark later in the day.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/badminton\/thomas-cup-satwik-chirag-ayush-shetty-star-as-india-down-canada-3-1-in-opener\/articleshow\/130491197.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India made a strong start to their Thomas Cup campaign, beating Canada 3-1 in their opening group match on Friday. Despite an early setback, the team quickly bounced back with solid performances in both singles and doubles to take control of the tie and seal victory comfortably.India were on the back foot after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8019","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\/8019","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=8019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}