Badminton

Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan beat Indonesia's Rina Marlina 21-14, 21-6 to clinch the bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have looked in the best shape for the Olympics while PV Sindhu too has geared up with a runner-up finish in Malaysia.

World No. 15 Sindhu, who will be eyeing her third Olympic medal at the Paris Games in two months time, will face second seed and world no. 7 Wang Zhi Yi of China in the summit clash.

The Indian men's team had ended their group stage at the second spot after losing 1-4 to Indonesia late on Wednesday, while the Chinese seemed to be in better shape as they ticked all the boxes to come up trumps once again at the big stage.

While Sindhu and ace singles men's shuttlers HS Pranoy and Lakshya Sen had sealed their Olympic spots long back, the formality was completed on Monday, the cut-off date set by the BWF.

Satwik and Chirag defeated the Malaysian duo OF Man Wei Chong and Kai Woo Tee 21-13, 21-12 in a round-of-16 clash

Sindhu battled her way from an opening-game reversal to outgun USA's Beiwen Zhang 13-21 21-10 21-14 to enter her first quarterfinal of the season. However, Srikanth was shown the exit door by Guang Zu in a 21-19 12-21 20-22 defeat.

Aakarshi posted a 25-23, 21-18 win over Shruti Mundada to lift the title on Monday, while Arjun and Dhruv got the better of Vinson Chiu and Joshua Yuan, beating the American pair 21-14, 21-13 in the final.

Youngster Anmol Kharb clinched the game-decider against Wu Luo Yu of China, to help India edge out the top seed 3-2 and qualify for the quarterfinals

PV Sindhu has been enduring a lean patch and even suffered injury setbacks and a dip in form in the last 18 months.

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty got a 21-7 21-10 win over Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen to book their place in the semi-finals of the India Open Super 750 badminton tournament

Axelsen failed to qualify for the finals after a gruelling 21-12, 19-21, 21-17 defeat to the world number six.

Sindhu is the only Indian to become badminton world champion and only the second individual athlete from India to win two consecutive medals at the Olympic Games.

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty had earned India's first-ever badminton gold medal at the Asian Games.

The world number six, Prannoy, came off second best against Malaysian Ng Tze Yong in a fixture that ended 12-21 21-13 18-21 as the Indian crashed out of the Super 1000 event in China. Sen also crashed out of the tournament in the first round after losing...

HS Prannoy bags a bronze medal at the BWF World Championships 2023 after losing to Thailand's Kunlavut Vitidsarn 21-18, 13-21, 14-21 as he crashed out in the semifinals