'Bravo': Twitter hails Indian badminton stars for historic gold medal at CWG 2018

London Olympic bronze-medallist Saina Nehwal produced a rich vein of form as she helped the star-studded Indian badminton team hammer Malaysia 3-1 to clinch the gold medal on Day Five of the 21st Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.

Nehwal guided India to their maiden gold in the mixed team event of the prestigious multi-sport Games after the pair of Satwik Rankireddy and Chirag Chandrashekhar Shetty lost their men's doubles clash.

In the opening match, the Indian duo Satwik Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa rebounded strongly from a game down to register a 21-14, 15-21, 21-15 win over Peng Soon Chan and Liu Ying Goh in a thrilling mixed doubles clash that lasted one hour and five minutes.

It was star shuttler Kidambi Srikanth who then doubled India's lead as he stunned Chong Wei Lee 21-17, 21-14 in a one-sided men's singles clash that lasted for 43 minutes.

This was India's tenth gold medal at the 21st edition of the Games

India were standing at the third spot on the points table with 19 medals in total, including seven in shooting alone at the end of day 5 of 2018 Commonwealth Games. 

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Indian fans hailed the historic win of India praising the players for the performance:  

No feeling is better than holing the GOLD,seeing flying high & to sing the national anthem along. #Badminton #TeamIndia lived the moment @gc2018. With them, entire nation rejoiced the proud moment.
Many congratulations team!
Immense proud on you.@BAI_Media pic.twitter.com/5TCoW0hY1v

— Dept of Sports MYAS (@IndiaSports) April 9, 2018

Bravo! India bags its first ever medal in mixed team badminton match!
Great work there by the Indian team who fought it hard on the court to clinch a medal. #IndiaAtCWG #GC2018 #CWG2018 pic.twitter.com/yMuurnoNyC

— Rajyavardhan Rathore (@Ra_THORe) April 9, 2018

Good to see Indian badminton win a hard fought team gold. Such positive stories coming out of there!

— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) April 9, 2018

Another Gold for India! Congratulations to the Indian Badminton team for winning the Mixed Team Badminton finals! @NSania sealed the deal! #GC2018 #CommonwealthGames2018

— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) April 9, 2018

Wowwww historic gold Indian badminton team!!! #CommonwealthGames2018 awesome heartiest congratulations!!!!

— Gutta Jwala (@Guttajwala) April 9, 2018

Congratulations #TeamIndia first time gold medal at a mixed badminton level @CWGC woohoooo

— Tanisha Fagwani (@tanishafagwani) April 9, 2018

Best beats the rest
A day to remember for the badminton family!
Big big salute to the Indian badminton team! #CWG 2018 pic.twitter.com/JGwpsVhsjO

— Raji R (@RajiR23) April 9, 2018

Take a Bow Indian Badminton teaammm! !! Complete domination..#CWG2018 ....

— Gayu (@Its_Gayu) April 9, 2018