Uber Cup 2024 Live Updates: Ashmita Chaliha and Co eye quarterfinals spot as India take on Singapore in Match 2

Thomas and Uber Cup 2024 Live: India and Singapore players. (BAI Media)

Uber Cup 2024, India vs Singapore Live Updates: After a good win on Day 1, a young Indian squad will be eyeing a spot in the quarterfinals as they take on Singapore in a Group A Uber Cup 2024 match in Chengdu, China on Sunday.

India kicked off their Uber Cup campaign with an impressive 4-1 win over Canada in the Group A encounter, led by Ashmita Chaliha’s upset win against Canada’s Michelle Li, ranked 28 places above her. National champs Priya Konjengbam and Shruti Mishra then doubled India’s lead , before Isharani Baruah clinched the tie. Simran Singhi and Ritika Thaker lost the second doubles rubber but rising star Anmol Kharb sealed a 4-1 win.

Uber Cup: Isharani Baruah, with a jump smash in the Akane Yamaguchi mould, is pure joy to watch

Isharani Baruah in action at Guwahati Masters 2023

The jump drop mixed with the leaping clears are slowly gentrifying Isharani Baruah’s wild, untamed, no-care-in-the world free jump smash. Big cities like Bangalore tend to do that, but perhaps the dashing teenager from Dibrugarh in Assam, needs the sophistication of mixing fast drops and half smashes and clears with the dizzy airborne smash, to sustain her badminton.

Isharani started with a comfortable straight sets win against Canada playing second singles in the Uber Cup where India has fielded a callow bunch of girls – not yet women – in the absence of PV Sindhu, who opted out. (Read more from Shivani Naik)