DHAKA, Feb 3 Pakistan ended up with three bronze medals in badminton competition of 11th South Asian Games in the men, women individual events at the Wooden Floor Gymnasium here on Wednesday.

Pakistan number two Ahsan Qamar lost his men singles semifinals against second seed R M V Guru Sai Dutt of India 21-15, 21-11 in just 21 minutes.

Indian was assured of five gold and five silver medals in badminton. Having already bagged the men's and women's team gold medals earlier, Indian badminton teams led by national champions Chetan Anand and Trupti Murgunde hence all set to make a clean sweep on Thursday.

In the men's singles semi-finals, top seeded Anand made a short work of Lankan No 2 Dinuka Karunaratne 21-15, 21-5 in a 25-minute.

Top seed Sayali Gokhale of Indian dumped Palwasha Bashir of Pakistan 21-8, 21-3 in their women's singles pre-finals in a battle that lasted just 20 minutes. Sayali will face second seeded Trupti who thrashed Thilini Jayasinghe of Sri Lanka 21-10, 21-18 in 30 minutes in another last-four woman's singles.

Top seeded in men's doubles, Rupesh Kumar and Sanave Thomas will face a challenge from Chetan and Diju for the gold-silver decider tomorrow. Rupesh and Sanave defeated Pakistan's Rizwan Azam and Kashif Sulehri of Pakistan 21-14, 21-13 in 23 minutes.—APP

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