NEW DELHI: Chennai Smashers emerged the 2017 Premier Badminton League (PBL) champions after defeating Mumbai Rockets 4-3 in a pulsating summit clash at the jampacked Siri Fort Indoor Stadium here on Saturday.
The stage was set for a perfect final with the result still hanging till the last game before Thailand's Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk came from behind to clinch the second men's singles tie 9-11, 11-7, 11-3 against Ajay Jayaram to help Chennai clinch the title.
Chennai and Mumbai won their respective Trump matches and with Olympic silver medallist PV Sindhu seeing off Korea's Sung Ju Hyun, it came down to the two men's singles match to decide the fate of the tie.
With both the teams poised at 3-3, the second men's singles game between Jayaram and Saensomboonsuk turned out to be the decider of the title.
Jayaram took the first game 11-9 only for the 26-year-old Thailand shuttler to bounce back in the next two games to take the title from Mumbai's grasps.
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