Newly crowned European team champions Bulgaria gave a major scare to Thailand before bowing out 2-3 to Thailand in the Uber Cup badminton championships in Horsens, Denmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both the Thai top singles and doubles pair were beaten as Bulgaria showed their growing stature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Bulgarians started their campaign in stunning style. Thailand’s star singles player Ratchanok Intanon was given a rude awakening by unheralded Kaloyana Nalbantova, who took the opening singles 23-21, 14-21, 24-22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pornpawee Chochuwong restored parity when she beat Gergana Pavlova 21-16, 21-6 in the second singles and Supanida Katethong put Thailand 2-1 up when she defeated Elena Popivanova 21-10, 21-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, Bulgaria levelled the score in the first doubles. Benyapa Aimsaard-Supissara Paewsampran were beaten by Gabriela Stoeve-Stefani Stoeva 11-21, 21-15, 9-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the score 2-2, Ornnicha Jongsathapornparn-Jhenicha Sudjaipraparat stepped up to bring relief to the Thais’ as they romped past Elena Popivanova-Tsvetina Popivanova 21-4, 21-6 for the win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n THOMAS CUP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Group C<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Denmark bt Korea 4-1 <\/strong>( Anders Antonsen bt Yoo Tae-bin 11-21, 21-17, 21-15; Daniel Lundgaard-Mads Vetergaard bt Ki Dong-ju-Kim Won-ho 21-18, 23-21; Magnus Johannesen bt Chou Jihoon 21-12, 17-21, 21-15; Kim Astrup-Mathias Christiansen lost to Jin Yong-Seo Seung-jae (Kor) 17-21, 21-18, 21-23; Ditlev Jaeger Holm beat Park Sang Yong (Kor) 26-24, 21-12)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Group D<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Indonesia beat Algeria 5-0 <\/strong>(Jonatan Christie bt Adel Hamek 21-8, 21-6; Alwi Farhan bt Mohamed Abderrahime Belarbi 21-8, 21-7; Anthony Sinisuka Ginting beat Mohamed Abdelaziz Ouchefoun 21-8, 21-6; Fajar Alfian-Muhammad Shohibul Fikri bt Mohammed Abderrahime Belarbi-Kocella Mammeri 21-14, 21-8; Raymond Indra-Nikolaus Joaquin bt Adel Hamek-Mohamed Ableaziz Ouchefoun 21-4, 21-7)<\/p>\n\n\n\n UBER CUP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Group A<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Denmark bt India 3-2 <\/strong>(Line Christophersen lost to P.V. Sindhu bt 13-21, 21-18, 17-21; Line Hojmark Kjaersfeldt bt Unnati Hooda 21-12, 25-23; Amalie Cecilie Kudsk-Mette Werge bt Priya Konjengbam-Shruti Mishra 21-17, 11-21, 23-21; Amalie Schulz bt Tanvi Sharma 19-21, 21-16, 21-16; Alexandra Boje-Christine Busch lost to Tanisha Crasto-P.V. Sindhu 21-19, 14-17 rtd)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Group D<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thailand beat Bulgaria 3-2 <\/strong>(Ratchanok Intanon lost to Kaloyana Nalbantova 23-21, 14-21, 24-22; Pornpawee Chochuwong bt Gergana Pavlova 21-16, 21-6; Supanida Katethong bt Elena Popivanova 21-10, 21-4; Benyapa Aimsaard-Supissara Paewsampran lost to Gabriela Stoeve-Stefani Stoeva 11-21, 21-15, 9-21; Ornnicha Jongsathapornparn-Jhenicha Sudjaipraparat beat Elena Popivanova-Tsvetina Popivanova 21-4, 21-6)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Newly crowned European team champions Bulgaria gave a major scare to Thailand before bowing out 2-3 to Thailand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-12122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-badminton"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ratchanok_Intanon-by-By-Nardisoero.jpg",1440,1080,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ratchanok_Intanon-by-By-Nardisoero-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ratchanok_Intanon-by-By-Nardisoero-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ratchanok_Intanon-by-By-Nardisoero-768x576.jpg",640,480,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ratchanok_Intanon-by-By-Nardisoero-1024x768.jpg",640,480,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ratchanok_Intanon-by-By-Nardisoero.jpg",1440,1080,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ratchanok_Intanon-by-By-Nardisoero.jpg",1440,1080,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ratchanok_Intanon-by-By-Nardisoero-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ratchanok_Intanon-by-By-Nardisoero-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Newsbeat<\/a>","tag_info":"Newsbeat","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ratchanok_Intanon-by-By-Nardisoero.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12123,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12122\/revisions\/12123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}