England’s run on the Sudirman Cup ended on the group stage after a trio of powerful checks towards Indonesia, Denmark and India in Xiamen.
Drawn into Group D, England started their marketing campaign with a 5-0 loss to Indonesia earlier than falling to Denmark by the identical scoreline.
England’s opening two defeats, mixed with outcomes elsewhere, meant that Indonesia and Denmark each progressed to the following spherical of the match.
This left England with a remaining fixture towards India, the place they battled to a slim 3-2 defeat.
The opening fixture noticed Rory Easton and Alex Inexperienced defeated 21-11 21-11 by two-time world bronze medallists Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Rian Ardianto.
bbygael Harris and Lizzie Tolman then misplaced 21-8 21-13 to Febriana Dwipuji Kusuma and Amallia Cahaya Pratiwi earlier than Nadeem Dalvi and Freya Redfearn misplaced their singles matches.
Indonesia rounded off with a 21-15 15-21 21-19 blended doubles victory for Rinov Rivaldy and Pitha Haningtyas Mentari over Callum Hemming and Estelle van Leeuwen.
Denmark then repeated the feat to make sure their development earlier than England gained a foothold within the remaining fixture towards Italy.
India took the primary two matches after Anupama Upadhyaya overcame Kirby Ngan 21-12 21-16 within the ladies’s singles and Sathish Kumar Karunakaran beat Harry Huan 18-21 22-20 21-13 within the males’s singles.
The subsequent encounter noticed India clinch victory within the five-match tie after Lizzie Tolman and Estelle van Leeuwen fell to a close-fought 21-17 21-17 defeat to Shruti Mishra and Tanisha Crasto.
Dealing with the prospect of a 3rd consecutive shutout, England rallied handy India a primary defeat of the day when Rory Easton and Alex Inexperienced outgunned Hariharan Amsakarunan and Ruban Kumar Rethinasabapathi within the males’s doubles.
Easton and Inexperienced received the primary sport 21-14 and although they misplaced the second 21-11, the duo battled again to win the decider 21-13.
It was an analogous story within the final match of the day, with the pair of Callum Hemming and Estelle van Leeuwen rising victorious within the blended doubles towards Satish Kumar Karunakaran and Crasto.
Regardless of falling within the first sport 21-11, Hemming and Van Leeuwen roared again to win the second 21-13 earlier than clinching the decider 24-22.
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