Assam bagged the first gold medal of the 37th National Games when their women's badminton team blanked Maharashtra 3-0 in the finals at the Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee stadium in Goa on Saturday.
Indian badminton team's coach Pullela Gopichand said they missed their star shuttler HS Prannoy, saying that his playing the first match of the gold medal clash would have actually helped them.
Lakshya Sen and the men's doubles pair Satwik Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty got India off to a flier but India failed to capitalise on it as they let the hosts China script a comeback and take the tie 3-2.
Indian men's badminton team faced a big blow just before their historic match for the first-ever gold medal at the Asian Games as in-form shutter HS Prannoy to miss the final after he suffered injury on Sunday, as per Olympics.com
India's Badminton team continued their winning streak at the Badminton World Junior Championships with an impressive 5-0 win over Brazil at Spokane in the United States
Indian badminton player Anupama Upadhyaya who is part of the Badminton team contingent for the Hangzhou Asian Games, said on Saturday that she admires India's star player Lakshya Sen as he encouraged her to play international level.
After losing against Chinese Taipei in the opening Group C encounter on Sunday, India ended up out of the race to make the knockout rounds. India will face Australia in their final group tie on Wednesday but even a win won't help them make the top two.