Horsens (Denmark), May 3 -- Indian men's team will return from the Thomas & Uber Cup 2026 in Horsens, Denmark, with a bronze medal after they went down 0-3 against France in the semi-finals on Friday.
The 2022 champions, who had upset Chinese Taipei in the quarterfinals, had suffered a major setback ahead of their semifinal clash as their top singles player, Lakshya Sen, had to sit out due to an elbow injury.
Debutant Ayush Shetty then had to play the first singles and 2025 BWF World Tour Finals winner Christo Popov exploited his opponent's relative inexperience to win 21-11, 21-9 to push the Indians on the back foot.
World no. 10 Alex Lanier then extended his team's lead with a 21-16, 21-18 win over Kidambi Srikanth.
This meant that HS...