NEW DELHI: Seasoned para-shuttler Pramod Bhagat clinched a sliver and two bronze medals in the recently-concluded Canada Para-Badminton International.
Pramod's silver medal came in men's singles event while the two bronze medals were in mixed doubles and men's doubles events.
The Padma Shri Awardee went down fighting to England's Daniel Bethell in the finals. It was a tight match with long rallies. Pramod gave it his all but unfortunately didn't have answers to Bethell's excellent gameplay. The match lasted for 58 minutes, and the final score read 12-21 and 13-21 against Bhagat.
The World No.1 pair of Bhagat and Sukant Kadam, who struck gold in the past few events, couldn't recreate their magic and finished with the bronze medal.
In the mixed doubles, Pramod Bhagat and Manisha Ramadass settled for a bronze medal. The duo went down fighting to the Indonesian pair of Fredy Setiawan and Khalimatus Sadiyah.
Talking about the same Pramod Bhagat said, "I am not very happy with my performance in this tournament, Bethell played a really good game. It is time to go back to the drawing board and look at the mistakes that I have done and start working on the same."
(With inputs from IANS)
