New Delhi. India has created history by winning the Thomas Cup badminton tournament. This achievement becomes very important for India in the badminton world. India has brought happiness on the faces of crores of sports lovers by winning the Thomas Cup for the first time. Along with this, India has also won the gold medal for the first time in the Thomas Cup. Team India has taken an unassailable 3-0 lead in the match against Indonesia in the final. In the first match, Lakshya Sen defeated Anthony Sinisuka 8-21, 21-17, 21-16. In the second doubles, the pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty won 18-21, 23-21, 21-19. The third match was of singles, in which Kidambi Srikanth defeated Jonathan Christie 21-15, 23-21.
After India’s historic victory, now the whole country is talking about Thomas Cup, so today we are going to tell you about Thomas Cup.
Thomas Cup
The Thomas Cup was started in 1948–49. The credit of starting this cup goes to the star player of badminton Sir George Allan Thomas. Actually, Sir George Alan Thomas wanted to organize this men’s tournament on the lines of Football World Cup and Davis Cup. The country that has won the most titles in the history of the Thomas Cup to date is Indonesia. Indonesia has won the Thomas Cup trophy 14 times. After this, if we talk about organizing the Thomas Cup, earlier it was organized once in three years. But after the change in the format of the year 1982, again it started being organized once in two years.
Let us inform that India has participated in this tournament 13 times so far in Thomas Cup. But for the first time this year, he has earned his name in the world by winning this cup.