India, Sept. 27 -- India's badminton campaign at the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya ended on a grim note on Sunday, yielding just a single medal - a bronze in the men's team event - after four individual quarter-finals ended in defeat at Ichinomiya.

The solitary podium finish represents a sharp decline from Hangzhou 2023 where Indian shuttlers delivered a landmark campaign with three medals: a historic maiden gold in men's doubles through Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, a silver in the men's team event and a men's singles bronze via HS Prannoy.

While 2026 marks the fourth consecutive Asian Games where Indian shuttlers have secured at least one medal, the historical trajectory - one medal at Incheon 2014, two in Jakarta-Palembang...