Top seed Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly were crowned the new women's doubles champions while T Hemanagendra Babu and Kanika Kanwal clinched the mixed doubles crown.
The senior nationals were not held for the last two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic and returns to a city that is widely considered as the birthplace of shuttle badminton
Indian shuttlers created history as they bagged their first-ever medal at the Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championship 2023 going down fighting to China 2-3 in the semi-final encounter.
This is going to be India's first-ever semis appearance in the tournament. In 2019, it was knocked out in group stages while it was defeated 3-2 by Thailand in the quarterfinals of the inaugural tournament back in 2017.
India has qualified for the QFs with wins over Kazakhstan and UAE as well. They have maintained a perfect record of three wins in three ties. In the quarterfinals on Friday, India will be playing Hong Kong, which finished at number two in Group D, as per Olympics.com
India's next tie will be against UAE, the hosts of the competition on Wednesday and PV Sindhu and Co will meet Malaysia, their toughest challenge in the group on Thursday
Sen won the opening game of the men's singles contest but Denmark's Rasmus Gemke fought back by engaging the Indian in long rallies to win 16-21, 21-15, 21-18 in the BWF World Tour Super 750 event, organised by the Badminton Association of India
Sen defeated Prannoy 21-14, 21-15 in the men's singles to settle his score against the World No 9 after he had suffered a defeat in the Malaysia Open earlier this month.
In their round of 16 match, the duo defeated the Indonesian duo of Muhammad Shohibul Fikri and Bagas Maulana in their round of 16 match in straight two games