India’s Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand finished with a historic bronze medal — India’s first women’s doubles badminton medal in 15 years.
IMAGE: Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand in action during the BWF Badminton World Championships in New Delhi. Photograph: ANI Photo
Key Points
- Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand lost to China’s World No 1 pair Tan Ning and Liu Shengshu in the BWF Badminton World Championships semi-finals.
- The Indian duo has already secured India’s first women’s doubles badminton medal in 15 years.
- Jolly and Gopichand are only the second Indian women’s doubles pair to confirm a medal at the World Championships, following Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa.
Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand’s extraordinary run ended with a fighting three-game loss to world No. 1 and defending champions Liu Sheng Shu and Tan Ning of China in the women’s doubles semi-finals at the World Championships in New Delhi on Saturday, as the Indian pair signed off with a maiden bronze medal.
The unseeded Indians produced a sensational start to pocket the opening game but could not maintain the pressure against the mighty Chinese pair, going down 21-18, 13-21, 8-21 in an hour and 11 minutes.
Historic Medal For Jolly-Gopichand
India last won a BWF World Championships medal in women’s doubles in 2011, when Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa claimed a bronze in London
This is the seventh victory in a for the Chinese pair against Jolly and Gopichand, extending their head to head record to 7-1.
