Indian men begin campaign with 5-0 rout of Germany

Lakshya Sen. Pic/AFP

The Indian men's badminton team began its Thomas Cup campaign in an emphatic manner, thrashing Germany 5-0 here on Sunday.

World Championships bronze medallist Lakshya Sen started the proceeding with an easy 21-16 21-13 win over world no 64 Max Weisskirchen. The doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty had to dig deep as they were stretched to a three gamer 21-15, 10-21, 21-13 by Jones Ralfy Jansen and Marvin Seidel.

World No.11 Kidambi Srikanth then eked out a 18-21, 21-9, 21-11 win over Kai Schafer. MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila handed Bjarne Geiss and Jan Colin Voelker a 25-23, 21-15 defeat in the second men's doubles tie. HS Prannoy, ranked 23rd in the world, then hardly broke a sweat as he completed a 5-0 whitewash of Germany, with a 21-9, 21-9 win over Matthias Kicklitz.

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