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At 2012 Thomas and Uber Cup Preliminery Round - Asia, Macau, China

Thomas Cup - For playoff 5th to 8th place
India bt Chinese Taipei 3-2

[MS1] Ajay Jayaram (IND) l Jen Hao Hsu (TPE) 21-14 19-21 11-21
[MD1] Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) l Sheng Mu Lee (TPA)/ Chieh Min Fang (TPE) 18-21 17-21
[MS2] Sourabh Varma (IND) bt Tien Chen Chou (TPE) 22-20 20-22 21-18
[MD2] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Pranav Chopra (IND) bt Min Chun Liao (TPE)/ Chun Wei Wu (TPE) 21-18 24-22
[MS3] Anand Pawar (IND) bt Yu Hsien Lin (TPE) 21-13 21-19

India finished creditable 7th position beating Chinese Taipei team in superb comeback win ... They were 0-2 down before winning final 3 matches ... Ajay lost in 3 games to Hsu and after that our top doubles team Rupesh and Sanave lost their next match ... In third match Sourabh scored hard fought win in 69 minutes match ... This win gave us 1st point in this match ... Next Akshay and Pranav scored win against Chinese Taipei pair to make it 2-all and in the final match Anand Pawar was favorite and he scored straight games victory to gave India memorable victory.