The women’s team has already reached the quarter-finals. The men’s team, on Tuesday, recorded its second straight 5-0 win, having beaten the Netherlands with an identical margin on Sunday
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The Indian men’s badminton team hammered Tahiti 5-0 to enter the quarter-finals of the Thomas Cup for the first time since 2010, but the women’s team suffered a crushing 0-5 defeat against a strong Thailand in its last group match here.
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It was the first defeat for Indian women after beating Spain (3-2) and Scotland (4-1). The women’s team has already reached the quarter-finals. The men’s team, on Tuesday, recorded its second straight 5-0 win, having beaten the Netherlands with an identical margin on Sunday.
The team is now in last-eight stage and the last time Indian men made the quarter-finals of the tournament, they had lost to Indonesia.
Meanwhile, India men will take on traditional powerhouse China in the final match on Thursday. B Sai Praneeth began the proceedings with a 21-5, 21-6 win over Louis Beaubois in the opening singles. Sameer Verma made it 2-0 with an easy 21-12, 21-12 victory over Remi Rossi. Kiran George sealed the tie for India with a 21-4, 21-2 thrashing of Elias Maublanc in the third men’s singles.
In the inconsequential doubles matches, the pair of Krishna Prasad and Vishnu Vardhan achieved a 21-8, 21-7 win before Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty beat Maublanc and Heiva Yvonet 21-5 21-3.
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