Tanisha Crasto and Dhruv Kapila of India won the mixed doubles championship at the Odisha Masters Super 100 badminton event on Sunday following a dramatic three-game triumph against Singapore’s Hee Yong Kai Terry and Tan Wei Han Jessica.
Apart from women’s singles, Indian shuttlers reached the finals of all four categories in the BWF World Tour calendar’s last competition.
Tanisha, 20, and Dhruv, 23, put up a valiant battle to come back from a game down to win 17-21, 21-19, 23-21 in an hour and 14 minutes.
Tanisha and Ashwini Ponnappa lost the women’s doubles final 21-14, 21-17 against the Indonesian team of Meilysa Trias Puspitasari and Rachel Allessya Rose later in the day.
Sathish Kumar won his first title at this level by defeating world junior championship bronze medalist Ayush Shetty 21-18, 19-21, 21-14 in the all-India men’s singles summit battle.
Krishna Prasad Garaga and Sai Pratheek K, the sixth seeded Indian men’s doubles duo, were defeated 20-22, 21-18, 21-17 by Chinese Taipei’s Lin Bing-Wei and Su Ching Heng.
Former world champion Nozomi Okuhara defeated Hong Kong, China’s Lo Sin Yan Happy 21-7, 21-23, 22-20 in the women’s singles final.
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