All England Open 2022: India’s teenage pairing of Gayatri Gopichand and Jolly Treesa surprised International No. 2 Sohee Lee and Sseungchan Shin of Korea to change into the primary pair to achieve the semi-finals on the prestigious Tremendous 1000 match.
Gayatri Gopichand (in image) and Jolly Treesa scripted historical past at All England Open 2022 (Getty Pictures)
HIGHLIGHTSGayatri and Jolly become the first Indian pair to achieve the All England semisThe Indian duo ousted International No. 2 ladies’s doubles pairEarlier, Lakshya Sen earned a walkover to males’s singles semis
India’s teenage pairing of Gayatri Gopichand and Jolly Treesa pulled off some of the largest upsets on the All England Championships 2022, shocking International No. 2 and global championships silver medalist Sohee Lee and Sseungchan Shin.of Korea within the ladies’s doubles quarter-final in Birmingham on Friday.
19-year-old Gayatri Gopichand and 18-year-old Jolly Treesa held their nerves in a gutsy show of badminton as they stored 2 fit issues within the 2d sport earlier than powering to a 14-21, 22-20, 21-15 within the quarter-final time out.
With the victory, Gayatri and Treesa scripted historical past via turning into the primary Indian pair to achieve the semi-final of All England Championships. Significantly, it used to be Gayatri’s father, Pullela Gopichand, who final gained the celebrated name for India, completing at the best step of the rostrum in males’s singles in 2001, 21 years after mythical Prakash Padukone introduced house the primary name from Birmingham.
Everybody sought after to understand what’s going to Tressa/Gayatri do if they did not win towards the 2d seeded pair these days. Bet we might by no means know
‘Boss Women’ are via to the semis of tremendous 1000 match for the first time in taste #AllEngland2022#IndiaontheRise#Badminton percent.twitter.com/EiijH4gYbg
— BAI Media (@BAI_Media) March 18, 2022
A HUGE disappointed within the quarter finals!!
The younger pair of Jolly & Pullela come from a suite right down to WIN towards the arena quantity 2s
Have a look at that response! #YAE22 https://t.co/XhduIeduQz percent.twitter.com/W56ErXTJFK
— Yonex All England Badminton Championships (@YonexAllEngland) March 18, 2022
Gayatri and Treesa weren’t a part of the primary draw first of all as they had been reserves however withdrawals resulted within the pair getting a chance at some of the largest phases of badminton. The teenage duo made complete use of the chance, beating Thailand’s Benyapa Aimsaard and Nuntakarn Almsaard within the first spherical 17-21, 22-20, 21-14.
The duo then submit a robust combat towards reigning Olympic champions Greysa Polii and Apriyani Rahayu earlier than the Indonesian pair withdrew within the 2d sport due tto an harm to the latter.
India may have 2 representatives within the semi-final at this yr’s All England Open Championships as in-form Lakshya Sen used to be given a walkover within the last-four spherical of fellows’s singles on Friday.
