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India thrashed United Arab Emirates 5-0 to registered their second win on the trot and just about seal a spot within the quarterfinals of the Asia Mixed Team Badminton Championships in Dubai on Wednesday. Star gamers P V Sindhu and H S Prannoy have been rested after they helped India beat Kazakhstan 5-0 of their opening match on Tuesday. Aakarshi Kashyap and Lakshya Sen took their place within the ladies’s and males’s singles respectively on Wednesday.
Sen was the primary to start out the proceedings for India and he simply defeated Dev Vishnu 21-16 21-12 in 31 minutes.
Aakarshi then took simply 26 minutes to outplay Madhumitha Sundarapandian 21-6 21-7 and provides India 2-0 lead.
The males’s doubles pair of Dhruv Kapila and Chirag Shetty made it 3-0 with 21-15 21-14 over the duo of Dev Ayyappan and Dhiren Ayyappan.
The ladies’s doubles pair of Ashwini Bhat and Shikha Gautam in addition to the blended doubles duo of Ishaan Bhatnagar and Tanisha Crasto then accomplished the formalities with straightforward wins over their respective opponents.
While Ashwini and Shikha beat the UAE pair of Sanika Dhawan and Akansha Raj 21-7 21-4, Ishaan and Tanisha defeated Latheesh Bharath and Rajesh Nayonika 21-13 21-8.
India play Malaysia of their final Group B match on Thursday, which might be their hardest fixture.
The prime two groups from every of the four-team 4 teams will qualify for the quarterfinals.
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