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China blanks India

Sendai (Japan): Chetan Anand's brave fight against the world No.1 was the only highlight for India, which was thrashed 0-5 by defending champion China in their first league match of Thomas Cup badminton finals here on Friday.

Anand, ranked 24, gave a scare to Lin Dan as he snatched the second game, but the champion finally emerged unscathed 21-8, 23-21, 21-11 to win the first match of the tie.

The results: Thomas Cup: Group A: China bt India 5-0 (Lin Dan bt Chetan Anand 21-8, 21-23, 21-11; Fu Haifeng/Cai Yun bt Rupesh Kumar/Diju Valiyaveettil 21-5, 21-16; Chen Jin bt Anup Sridhar 21-14, 21-10; Zheng Bo/Guo Zhendong bt Thomas Kurian/Jaseel P. Ismail 21-6, 21-10;

Xia Zuanze bt Arvind Bhat 21-15, 21-10). — PTI

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