Sankar Muthusamy wins silver at junior badminton world championships
Sankar Muthusamy’s fine campaign at the BWF world junior badminton championships came to an end as the Indian lost to Kuo Kuan Lin of Chinese Taipei 14-21, 20-22 in the final in Santander, Spain. Sankar became the second Indian male to win a silver after Siril Verma in 2015.
Kuo unsettled Sankar with his fiery smashes from the back of the court. The Taipei boy ran a 13-9 lead and it looked like he would close out the first game as Sankar wasn’t in his element in long rallies committing a lot of unforced errors at the net and back of the court.
Sankar fought back admirably to level the scores to 13-each, with his trademark defence and good retrievals. The former World No.1 made a series of unforced errors at the net as the Taipei lad won six straight points and didn’t look back.