It’s the first final he’s lost since 2005 — to Taufik Hidayat, something that most have forgotten about. In 2015, he was made the chief coach after Van Ass was sacked following a tiff with then Hockey India president Narinder Batra. ed if he committed a “major offense” during his first-round singles loss. India’s BMKJ brigade just don’t strike the right chord in Sindhu’s final, and are not particularly creative with a short-running “Blah blah blah blah, Sindhu is a Superstar”. Euro 2016 quarter-finalists Iceland bullied their way back into the game in the second half but lacked composure in the Finnish penalty area, wasting chance after chance. There’s consensus that she’d have given even Carolina Marin and Sindhu a run for their money. George also had beaten China’s Li Shifeng 21-17 21-14 to set up a semifinal clash with Bharadwaj at the PE Society’s Modern PDMBA Sports Complex. Super Dan, whose played at a loopy dull pace all week to make it to his 7th finals, doesn’t win after all. Prince Edward is in attendance for the finals, and after a very brief wave and smile, the patron of Scottish badminton settles to watch the sport, amongst the other fans. Iceland were second in Group I on 13 points coming into the game, with Croatia, who play bottom side.