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The pair of Trisha Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand won the women’s doubles title of the Syed Modi International 2025 badminton tournament. The Indian pair defeated the Japanese pair in the final played on Sunday and defended the title.
The Indian pair, ranked 14th in the world, defeated Japan’s Kaho Osawa and Mai Tanabe 17-21, 21-13, 21-15 at the Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium in Lucknow. This match lasted for 1 hour 16 minutes.
At the same time, former world number-1 Kidambi Srikanth lost 16-21, 8-21, 22-10 against Jason Gunawan of Hong Kong in the men’s singles final.
Indian pair won after losing the first game In the first game, Trisha Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand were trailing 11-9 at the interval and lost their first game. However, the Indian badminton pair managed to make a comeback in the second game. She was leading 11-5 at the interval and was successful in taking the match to the third game.
After this, this Indian pair performed brilliantly in the deciding game and won the match after taking a lead of 11-5 and won the Syed Modi International title for the second consecutive time.
Srikanth lost in tie-break After losing the first game, Kidambi Srikanth dominated World No. 59 Jason Gunawan in the second game and took the match to the third game. In the third game, Srikanth saved the match point and took the match to the tie-break, but ultimately lost. This was Kidambi Srikanth’s first defeat in three matches against Jason Gunawan. Srikanth had earlier won the Syed Modi International title in 2016.
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