The Indian men beat China for the first time in a team event before the women lost to Japan in the Badminton Asia Team Championship here on Thursday.
The Indian men defeated a depleted China 3-2 in the five-match tie comprising three singles and two doubles. The home team won all three singles but went down in doubles. Both Indian men and women have already qualified to the quarterfinals.
In the first men's singles match, captain Kidambi Srikanth gave a good start to his team with a superb 21-11, 21-17 win against China's Houwei Tian.
In the second singles between India's Ajay Jayaram and China's Zhengming Wang, the Indian came out on top winning 22-20, 15-21, 21-18. Though Wang (world no.11) was well ahead of Jayaram in terms of ranking, the 25th-ranked Indian came up with a spirited performance to tame his rival.
It was an exciting contest between Jayaram and Wang with both of them leaving no stone unturned to gain advantage. With both winning one game each, the third and decisive game turned out to be a battle of wits.
India's HS Prannoy then went on to win against his low-ranked rival Yuqi Shi in the third singles 21-14, 21-10.
But in doubles, Manu Attri-Sumeeth Reddy lost to Junhui li-Zihan Qiu 20-22, 11-21 and then Pranaav Jerry Chopra-Akshay Dewalkar was defeated by Yilv Wang-Wen Zhang 10-21, 18-21.
However, it was a wash out for India's women's team as they lost 0-5 to Japan in the evening session.
In the tie between PV Sindhu and Japan's Nozomi Okuhara, the Indian shuttler lost to her Japanese rival, who is ranked world number 8, 18-21, 21-12, 21-12.
India's PC Thulasi lost to her Sayaka Sato 22-24, 14-21.
Ruthvika Shivani Gadde went down fighting to Japan's Yui Hashimoto 23-25, 21-14, 21-14.
In the first doubles, Japan's Misaki Matsumoto-Ayaka Takahashi trounced India's famed doubles pair of Jwala Gutta-Ashwini Ponnappa 21-12, 21-18. Then, Shizuka Matsuo-Mami Naito defeated Sikki Reddy-PV Sindhu 18-21, 21-11, 21-16.