Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy in action during the 2014 Asian Games.
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The top-seeded Indian men’s doubles pair of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy showed a lot of resilience to book themselves a berth in the final of the XXI Peru International 2016 on Saturday. The World No. 20 pair came back from a game down to edge past the Canadian duo of Adrian Liu and Derrick Ng, 18-21, 21-19, 21-13 in the semi-final contest. The match lasted 51 minutes.
In the summit clash, they will lock horns with the second seeds Adam Cwalina and Przemyslaw Wacha of Poland. The two teams met thrice last year and the Indians won two of those meetings.
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Attri and Reddy, who finished 2015 with the Mexico City Grand Prix title, have been struggling for consistency this year and have so far reached just one BWF quarter-final at the New Zealand Open.
After receiving a first round bye at this week’s Peru International, they began their challenge with a comfortable 21-13, 21-18 victory over the American combine of Phillip Chew and Sattawat Pongnairat in the last-eight showdown.
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Sudeshna Banerjee
Sudeshna is a veteran Indian Sports and International Tennis journalist as well as editor at Sportskeeda. She has an overall experience of over 10 years with top publications like The Bridge, Fox Sports Asia, and gained a keen interest in Indian sports since the 2002 Commonwealth and Asian Games when she was in school.
Sudeshna holds a Master's degree in Journalism and Mass Communication. She attends tournaments regularly and being a highly experienced journalist, she ensures she only contacts the correct people from her network for the most authentic information to be put in her articles.
Sudeshna’s favorite Indian athlete is PV Sindhu owing to her big-tournament performances. She also admires Tennis legend Rafael Nadal for his resilience and has witnessed the Spaniard in action at the French Open, due to which, Roland Garros is her all-time favorite Grand Slam tournament.
Neeraj Chopra’s gold medal win at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics made a lasting impact on Sudeshna. She has also interviewed him along with Badminton star Chirag Shetty and several other sports personalities. She has done on-ground reporting on multiple ITF tournaments along with the Premier Badminton League, Asian Boxing Championships and the Davis Cup.
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