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Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships: Men’s singles player Sathish Kumar Karunakaran and women’s doubles pairing of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly fought back from two matches down to keep the team in the hunt, but that did not prove enough as India went down 2-3 against South Korea in their second Group D clash in the Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships 2025 on Thursday.

Having already qualified for the knockout stage, India and South Korea faced off to determine the group winner. It wasn’t an ideal start for India as the mixed doubles combination of Dhruv Kapil and Tanisha Crasto and women’s singles player Malvika Bansod lost their respective matches.

National Games double gold medallist Sathish brought India back into the contest, keeping his nerves under pressure to beat Cho Geonyeop 17-21, 21-18, 21-19.