India bounced back from their opening defeat to hosts Denmark to down Ukraine 4-1 in their Group A Uber Cup badminton championships in Horsens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hosts Denmark, who had beaten the Indians 3-2 in their opening match, were given a 0-5 thrashing by favourites China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India chose to rest veteran P.V Sindhu in the singles, but still packed enough firepower to down Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unnati Hooda was upgraded to first singles and despite some late challenges, defeated Polina Buhrova 21-19, 22-20 to give India the lead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tanvi Sharma had a much easier time in her defeat of Yevheniia Kantemyr in the second singles. She won 21-12, 17-21 to put the Indians in the pedestal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Making her first appearance, Devika Sihag overcam a first game jitters to down Mariia Stoliarenko 23-21, 21-13 and give India the unassailable lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India, however dropped the first doubles, with Kavipriya Selvam-Simran Singh losing their match 11-21, 17-21 to Polina Buhrova-Yevheniia Kantemyr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sindhu, who played both singles and doubles against Denmark, was fielded in only the doubles this time partnering Tanisha Crasto. The duo easedpast Sofiia Lavrova-Mariia Stoliarenko 21-18, 21-15 in the second doubles and a morale boosting win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n THOMAS CUP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Group B<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Japan beat Finland 5-0 <\/strong>(Kodai Naraoka bt Joakim Oldorff 15-21, 21-17, 21-16; Koki Watanabe bt Eliel Melleri 21-12, 21-10; Yudai Okimoto bt Ananda Galvani Daniswara 21-12, 21-17; Takuro Hoki-Hiroki Midorikawa bt Eliel Melleri-Niilo Nyqvist 21-2, 21-10; Takumi Nomura-Yuichi Shimogami bt Ananda Galvani Danisara-Avlar Melleri 21-17, 21-13)<\/p>\n\n\n\n UBER CUP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Group A<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n China beat Denmark 5-0 <\/strong>(Wang Zhiyi bt Line Christophersen 21-11, 21-14; Liu Shengshu-Tan Ning bt Amalie Cecilie Kudsk-Matte Werge 21-10, 21-16; Han Yue bt Mia Blichfeldt 21-11, 21-13; Jia Yifan-Zhang Shuxian bt Anna Klausholm-Simona Pilgaard 21-6, 21-13; Xu Wenjing bt Line Hojmark Kjaersfeldt 21-16, 21-16)<\/p>\n\n\n\n India beat Ukraine 4-1 <\/strong>(Unnati Hooda bt Polina Buhrova 21-19, 22-20; Tanvi Sharma bt Yevheniia Kantemyr 21-12, 17-21, 21-10; Devika Sihag bt Mariia Stoliarenko 23-21, 21-13; Kavipriya Selvam-Simran Singh lost to Polina Buhrova-Yevheniia Kantemyr 11-21, 17-21; Tanisha Crasto-P.V. Sindhu bt Sofiia Lavrova-Mariia Stoliarenko 21-18, 21-15)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" India bounced back from their opening defeat to hosts Denmark to down Ukraine 4-1 in their Group A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12177,"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-12176","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\/2026\/04\/Unnati-Hooda.jpg",2002,1263,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Unnati-Hooda-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Unnati-Hooda-300x189.jpg",300,189,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Unnati-Hooda-768x485.jpg",640,404,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Unnati-Hooda-1024x646.jpg",640,404,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Unnati-Hooda-1536x969.jpg",1536,969,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Unnati-Hooda.jpg",2002,1263,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Unnati-Hooda-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Unnati-Hooda-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\/2026\/04\/Unnati-Hooda.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12176","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=12176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12178,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12176\/revisions\/12178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}