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India Takes Strong Lead in Thomas Cup Finals Against Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n In a thrilling start to the Thomas Cup Finals, India secured an impressive 4-1 advantage over Canada during their opening Group match on Friday. The spotlight was on Ayush Shetty, the runner-up from the Badminton Asia Championships, as well as the dynamic doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, who delivered remarkable performances.<\/p>\n The day kicked off with World No. 4 Lakshya Sen facing off against Canada\u2019s World No. 13, Victor Lai. Despite a valiant effort, Sen fell short, losing the match with scores of 18-21, 21-19, 21-10, giving Canada an early lead.<\/p>\n However, the tide turned when the doubles team of Satwik and Chirag took to the court. They showcased their skills in a commanding match, defeating Jonathan Bing Tsan Lai and Kevin Lee with a convincing score of 21-10, 21-11, leveling the contest for India.<\/p>\n With this strong display, India is well on its way to advancing in the tournament.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" India Takes Strong Lead in Thomas Cup Finals Against Canada In a thrilling start to the Thomas Cup Finals, India secured an impressive 4-1 advantage over Canada during their opening Group match on Friday. The spotlight was on Ayush Shetty, the runner-up from the Badminton Asia Championships, as well as the dynamic doubles duo of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[16386,5327,38576,30890,10951,5326,38575],"class_list":{"0":"post-29780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ayush-shetty","9":"tag-chirag-shetty","10":"tag-india-vs-canada","11":"tag-kidambi-srikanth","12":"tag-lakshya-sen","13":"tag-satwiksairaj-rankireddy","14":"tag-thomas-cup-finals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}