# Treesa-Gayatri set for World Championships opener after injury comeback 2026-08-16T15:51:56+00:00 | Sports | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets India's top women's doubles pair, Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand, have launched their BWF World Championships campaign in New Delhi with a dominant first-round win over Spain's Paula Lopez and Lucia Rodriguez. The unseeded duo won 21-9, 21-13 at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium on August 17, setting up a Round of 32 clash against the 16th-seeded American pair of Lauren Lam and Allison Quynh Lee. The win marks a strong return from a setback earlier this year. On April 1, Treesa suffered an ankle injury during training, with scans showing two ligament tears and two higher-grade muscle tears, as reported by Hindustan Times. She underwent seven weeks of bed rest and two months of rehabilitation, sidelining the pair for nearly three months. They missed the Asia Championships and the Uber Cup, and their ranking slipped from No.20 in January to No.58 by June. To regain match fitness, the duo played the Philippine International Challenge, which they won. Times Now reports Treesa described playing in front of a home crowd as exciting. "The crowd, the hometown fan base gives us an extra boost of energy rather than pressure," she told Hindustan Times. Gayatri called their opening match a "perfect game." ## Coverage - hindustantimes.com - timesnownews.com This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above. Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources. Last updated 2026-08-18T07:12:23+00:00. Tags: BWF World Championships, Gayatri Gopichand, Pullela Gopichand, Treesa Jolly Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/treesa-gayatri-eye-world-championships-after-injury-layoff/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/treesa-gayatri-eye-world-championships-after-injury-layoff/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/