India, Nov. 30 -- On a day when 2021 World Championship silver medal-winning shuttler Kidambi Srikanth failed to win the men's singles final, top-Indian women's doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand kept the Indian colours flying high winning the doubles title at the Syed Modi India International here on Sunday.

Fifth-seeded Srikanth went down fighting to unseeded Jason Gunawan of Hong Kong China 16-21, 21-8, 20-22, but Treesa and Gayatri came from behind to brush aside the Japanese pair of Kaho Osawa and Mai Tanabe 17-21, 21-13, 21-15 in a marathon final, which lasted for over one hour.

Defending champions Treesa and Gayatri even after levelling the score at eight in the first game, went down fighting. But after the change...