Indian shuttlers win 1 gold, 2 silver medals at World Senior
: Indian shuttlers finished their campaign on a high with a gold and two silver medals at the BWF World Senior Badminton Championships 2019 in Katowice, Poland on Sunday.
Chennai's Vijay Lancy Mascarenhas and Ajeet Haridass won gold in the 40-plus men's doubles category, while Manjusha Sudhir Sahasrabudhe and the pair of Prabhu Naik Naidu Kona and Suzanne Venglet settled for silver in the 55-plus women's singles and 50-plus mixed doubles categories respectively.
Former national level players, Lancy Mascarenhas and Haridass made a superb comeback in their 19-21, 21-17, 21-19 upset win over the 3/4th seeds Esben B Kaempegaard and Morten Eilby Rasmussen of Denmark in the summit clash, a press release said.
Manjusha made a bright start to her final against the top seed Zhou Xin of Hong Kong but went down fighting 21-14, 13-21, 13-21 in 37 minutes.
Kona and Venglet's superb run came to an end at the hands of English top seeds Rajeev Bagga and Elizabeth Austin, 13-21, ...