How Treesa-Gayatri’s Syed Modi Super 300 title offers a timely reminder of their potential after tough 2024 | Badminton News
At 16-14 in the opening game of the women’s doubles final, things were on a knife edge. Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand had the slender lead but Bao Li Jing and Li Qian were – as you’d expect from any level of a Chinese doubles pairing – were proving tough to crack. The 38-shot rally that followed proved critical, as Treesa showed patience from the backcourt to not just go for the kill despite the Chinese constantly lifting the shuttle, and Gayatri kept the rally going from the front court. They showed they could play the waiting game, and that it wasn’t just about attack. “That was so well played, there was a lot of mixing up of the pace. They didn’t just go flat out attack. Treesa was very patient there,” Ashwini Ponnappa, on commentary duties for BWF, remarked. It was the cornerstone of Treesa-Gayatri’s title win at the Syed Modi India International in Lucknow on Sunday, as they clinched their first ever Super 300 title on the BWF World Tour. They beat Bao …
