 "Thulasimathi Murugesan lost the women's singles SU5 gold medal match after defeating Manisha Ramadass in an all-Indian semi-final. Reuters")
Indian para-shuttlers continued to add to the nation’s medal haul at the Paralympic Games in Paris with Thulasimathi Murugesan winning silver while Manisha Ramadass collecting bronze, both in the women’s singles SU5 category.
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Ramadass easily overpowered Denmark’s Catherine Rosengren 21-12, 21-8 in straight games to win bronze, taking India’s medal haul at the ongoing Paralympics to double digits.
Just minutes later, Thulasi’s gold medal match against Yang Qiuxia also ended in straight games, but with the Chinese para-shuttler emerging triumphant by 21-17, 21-10. Thulasi, as a result, collected silver, India’s 11th medal at the Games.
Thulasi had earlier defeated Ramadass late on Sunday in an all-Indian semi-final in straight games (23-21, 21-17) to advance to the summit clash.
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Ramadass is a five-time World Championships medallist, winning singles gold in Tokyo in 2022 and silver in Pattaya earlier this year, and had won three bronze medals at the Asian Para-Games in Hangzhou last year.
Thulasi had won three medals in the Asian Para-Games — a gold, a silver and a bronze — besides a doubles silver in the World Championships in 2022.
Nitesh Kumar had earlier won gold in the men’s singles SL3 final, defeating Britain’s Daniel Bethell 21-14, 18-21, 23-21 to win India’s ninth medal of the ongoing games.
India also are assured of at least a silver in the men’s singles SL4 category, in which Tokyo 2020 silver medallist Suhas Yathiraj faces French para-shuttler Lucas Mazur in the final.
Yathiraj had defeated Sukant Kadam in an all-Indian semi-final on Sunday, with Kadam set to face Indonesia’s Fredy Setiawan in the bronze medal match around the same time as Yathiraj’s gold medal clash.