Well played

It was really painful to see our shuttlers, Satwik Sairaj Reddy and Chirag Shetty’s dream run ending with a hard-fought quarter-finals against Malaysian pair Aaron Chia and Soh Woo Yik in three games. It seems, after winning the first game easily, our shuttlers were overconfident of finishing the match in a jiffy. But the Malaysian pair came back strongly and aggressively to not only take the second game, but even run over the Indian pair in the third game to shatter our dreams.

Our boys were in the game till the score was 15, all in the deciding game. But our boys had no clue to the aggressive attitude of the Malaysian pair. Though our boys lost their match, still they fought well and we could only feel sorry for them. Better luck next time.

Vinay Mahadevan,

Mylapore, Chennai