{"id":73687,"date":"2026-05-03T04:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/73687\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T04:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:25:09","slug":"ayush-shetty-defeat-leaves-india-0-1-down-to-france-in-thomas-cup-2026-semifinals-in-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/73687\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayush Shetty Defeat Leaves India 0-1 Down to France in Thomas Cup 2026 Semifinals in Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India trailed France 0-1 in the Thomas Cup 2026 semifinals in Horsens, Denmark, on Saturday after Ayush Shetty lost to Christo Popov in straight games in the first singles match.<\/p>\n<p>With <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sentinelassam.com\/sports-news\/indian-shuttler-lakshya-sen-reflects-on-mental-discipline-at-all-england-finals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lakshya Sen<\/a> ruled out of the tie due to an elbow injury, World No. 18 Ayush had to play as the top-ranked Indian singles player. However, against World No. 4 Christo, the 20-year-old could not do much and conceded the match 11-21, 9-21 in 39 minutes. The left-handed Frenchman totally dominated the match. He dictated the rallies, controlled the pace and kept the Indian guessing.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion China led Denmark 1-0 in the other semifinal as World No. 1 Shi Yuqi took down World No. 3 Anders Antonsen 21-16, 21-5. Agencies<\/p>\n<p>Also Read: <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sentinelassam.com\/sports-news\/csk-register-8-wicket-dominant-win-over-mi-climb-to-sixth-in-ipl-2026-table\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CSK register 8-wicket dominant win over MI, climb to sixth in IPL 2026 table<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI: India trailed France 0-1 in the Thomas Cup 2026 semifinals in Horsens, Denmark, on Saturday after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[39760,27,26,234,36697],"class_list":["post-73687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-ayush-shetty","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-france","tag-thomas-cup-2026"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116508748993769178","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}