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Uber Cup 2024 Live Updates, India vs Japan quarterfinals: Ashmita Chaliha takes on Aya Ohori in Match 1 | Badminton News

How big is the gap between China’s top tier women’s badminton and India’s second string?
Isharani Baruah is No 83, Anmol Kharb is No 258 and Tanvi Sharma is No 589. Tanvi was also the youngest at the Uber Cup, at age 15. (BAI)
There were myriad technical shortcomings of hers that Isharani Baruah candidly reflected on after being shot out 21-12, 21-10 Olympic champion Chen Yufei playing the Uber Cup group match. The pace of the rallies she could cope with, but Yufei’s lengths, her drops, variations, and all strokes going to the backcourt, mightily awed the 20-year-old. “And it was not comfortable. It was tough. I have to improve my strokes and variations,” she would state. (READ MORE)

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