All England Open: Gayatri Gopichand-Trisha Jolly lose in semi-finals of All England Open

All England Open 2023: Indian duo Gayatri Gopichand and Teresa Jolly were defeated by Korean pair Baek Na Ha and Lee So Hee 21-10, 21.-10 in the All England Open 2023 women’s doubles semi-finals. With this defeat, the challenge of the Indian pair in the All India Open tournament has ended.

After taking an early lead in this match, the Indian badminton pair faded in the middle and failed to stop the Korean pair. Although the Indian pair tried their best to come back, the Korean pair did not give them a chance. The Korean pair leveled the first set from 14-10 to 21-10. In this match, the Indian pair did not get a single chance to emerge. The game lasted only 20 minutes.

After this, the Indian duo tried to make a sure comeback in the second game. But they could not do anything special. The Korean duo dominated the game for 26 minutes and won by a margin of 21-10. The Indian pair, ranked 17th in the world, had a disappointing performance in the semifinals of the All England Open last season as well, where they lost to China’s Zhu Jian Zhang and Yu Zheng.

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The Indian pair of Trisha Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand Pullela on Friday defeated Li Wen Mei and Liu Xuan Xuan 21-14, 18-21, 21-12 to enter their second consecutive All England Badminton semifinal. In the second round match of this tournament, the Indian pair defeated the pair of former world rankings Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota by a huge margin of 21-14, 24-22. Thus, in the first round, he defeated Thailand’s Jongkolphan Kitiharkul and Ravinda Prajongai.