History repeats itself as the Indian men\u2019s badminton team secured a spot in the Thomas Cup 2026 semifinals<\/b> with a commanding 3-0<\/b> sweep over Chinese Taipei<\/b> in Horsens, Denmark. This victory guarantees India at least a bronze medal<\/b>, marking their continued dominance after their historic 2022 title win.<\/p>\n
In a high-stakes quarterfinal where the first to three wins out of five matches advances, India needed no more than the first three matches<\/b> to seal the deal.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 Lakshya Sen<\/b> set the tone by defeating world No. 6 Chou Tien Chen<\/b> in a grueling 88-minute battle, coming back from a game down to win 18-21, 22-20, 21-17<\/b>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 The star doubles duo, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy<\/b> and Chirag Shetty<\/b>, extended the lead to 2-0 after a hard-fought three-game victory (23-21, 19-21, 21-12)<\/b> over Chiu Hsiang<\/b> Chieh<\/b> and Wang Chi-Lin<\/b>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 Young prodigy Ayush Shetty<\/b> delivered the final blow, upsetting world No. 8 and reigning All England champion Lin Chun-Yi <\/b>with a clinical 21-16, 21-17<\/b> performance.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n By entering the semifinals, India has officially confirmed its second consecutive Thomas Cup medal. They are now set to face either France<\/b> or Japan<\/b> for a place in the grand finale. With the \u201cMen in Blue\u201d looking unstoppable, fans are hopeful for a repeat of the 2022 golden run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" History repeats itself as the Indian men\u2019s badminton team secured a spot in the Thomas Cup 2026 semifinals with a\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":51091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4693],"tags":[5385,2960,4057],"class_list":["post-51087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thomas-uber-cup","tag-chinese-taipei","tag-lakshya-sen","tag-top-stories"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51092,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51087\/revisions\/51092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What\u2019s Next?<\/h3>\n