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Ashmita Chaliha wins Korea Masters, completes comeback from knee surgery
Ashmita Chaliha won her maiden BWF World Tour title at the Korea Masters on Sunday, beating China's Han Qian Xi 14-21, 21-14, 21-14 in the final. The 23-year-old from Assam is only…
The Story in Brief
Ashmita Chaliha won her maiden BWF World Tour title at the Korea Masters on Sunday, beating China's Han Qian Xi 14-21, 21-14, 21-14 in the final. The 23-year-old from Assam is only the fifth Indian women's singles player to win a World Tour title. "I feel really great and unbelievable… Now, I am hungry for more," she told BWF after the match.
The title came exactly two years after Chaliha suffered a career-threatening knee injury at the same tournament that required surgery. It took her eight months to return to the court. She now trains under Park Tae-Sang at the National Centre of Excellence in Guwahati.
The Indian Opinion
A comeback story writes itself, but the narrative that Indian badminton's future rests on a single new face is lazy. Chaliha's win is real, she beat a seeded Chinese opponent in her first World Tour final, but she joins Devika Sihag and Tanvi Sharma as title winners this year, not replaces them. The test now is consistency. One Super 300 crown does not erase the gap between PV Sindhu and the rest. Can she string together back-to-back deep runs?
Source: timesnownews.com
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