BWF World Junior Badminton Championships: Indian juniors maintain winning streak

The Indian shuttlers, who are just a win away from entering the quarterfinals, will play their last group match on Thursday against Algeria.

The team management decided to rest Asian junior champion and World No.3 Lakshya Sen and rotated a few others to test the team's bench strength.

India’s mixed team registered its third consecutive win in a group E tie, beating the lower ranked Faroe Islands 5—0 at the Li Ning BWF World Junior Badminton Championships 2018 here.

The Indian shuttlers, who are just a win away from entering the quarterfinals, will play their last group match on Thursday against Algeria.

The team management decided to rest Asian junior champion and World No.3 Lakshya Sen and rotated a few others to test their bench strength, giving the players some required match practice on Tuesday evening before the crucial knockout phase.

In Tuesday’s match, the men doubles pair of Manjit Khawairapam and Dingku Singh beat Jonas Djurhuus and M. Jacobsen 21—11, 21—7 even as Gayatri Gopichand, playing the women singles, downed Lena Maria Joensen 21—8, 21—7, rather easily to consolidate their lead in 16 minutes.

Kiran George, who played the men singles next, made light work of  Arant A. MyRini 21—6, 21—7.

The women doubles duo of Aditi Bhatt and Tanisha Crasto handed out a 21—9, 2—19 defeat to Lena aria Joensen and Alma Mohr Pedersen and in the last rubber, Ashwini Bhatt and Saiprateek Krishnaprasad completed the formality by beating Jonas Djurhuus and Sissal Thomsen 21—7, 21—7 in mixed doubles in just about 15 minutes.