Thomas & Uber Cup Finals LIVE: Both Indian men and women start their campaign with wins — Blog, updates, score, results

Zhang 14-12 Kashyap

Zhang pulls off a cross-court slice, it hits Kashyap's racket and goes wide.

Kashyap with the lead of 11-10 at the interval.

An unforced error by Zhang and Kashyap with the lead of 11-10 at the interval.

Kashyap plays it cool and takes Zhang to a cross-court challenge. She needs to hold on to the momentum.

Kashyap 8-8 Zhang 

Kashyap is lacking the skills here and looks quite defensive against Wang. She trails 5-6

 

Kashyap on the backfoot

Despite a good cross-court drop shot gave Akasrshi the start, Wang outmaneuvers the India and keep on building points.

Aakarshi Kashyap up next!

Aakarshi Kashyap will stride out next for India in the second singles contest. She will be up against Wen Yu Zhang and will be eyeing to help India back into the lead of this tie.

Shruti-Simran LOSE!

That's it. Shruti and Simran gave a good account of themselves in the first game, but they have surrendered 19-21, 12-21 in 36 minutes. This also means Canada have levelled the tie at 1-1.

This seems to be out of India's grasp

A slew of points post the break for the Canadian pair and they lead 19-12. Right then, Canada equalising the tie score looks inevitable now.

India on the backfoot!

Rachel-Kristen go into the mid-game break with a healthy 11-8 lead and the pressure is now clearly on Shruti-Simran to deliver. Can they bounce back to push this into a decider?

Close start to Game 2

The second game has started off very closely as well. There is nothing much to separate the two pairs, but the Canadians lead 5-4 for now.