Former junior national champion Tanvi Lad reached
her maiden international final when she got the better of seventh seed Yuka
Kusunose of Japan 16-21, 21-14, 21-19 in the women’s singles semifinal in the
Swiss International Challenge badminton tournament in Yverdon-Ies-Bains,
Switzerland.
Sixth seed Tanvi stuck to her style of grinding down the
opponent with long rallies and the game plan worked perfectly for the Mumbai
girl who won the semifinal in just over an hour and set up a summit clash
against Beiwen Zhang of USA.
While Tanvi made it to her maiden final, the promising run
of India’s doubles pairs came to an end at the semifinal stage with the mixed
doubles combination of Pranaav Jerry Chopra/K Maneesha and men’s doubles pair
of Chopra/Akshay Dewalkar losing their hard fought encounters.
Chopra and Dewalkar, who had bagged the bronze medal in the
Bulgarian International last week, tried their best to join Tanvi in the final
but went down 21-18, 21-16 against the French combination of Lucas Korvee and
Brice Leverdez.
Earlier, the mixed doubles pair of Maneesha and Chopra
fought valiantly against top seeds Vitalij Durkin and Nina Vislova of Russia
but their efforts were not enough as they went down 21-15, 21-11.
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