India’s ace shuttlers Lakshya Sen and Kidambi Srikanth joined PV Sindhu within the semifinals of badminton on the Commonwealth Games on Saturday.
Sen continued his sensible run on the CWG this 12 months (Courtesy: AP)
HIGHLIGHTSLakshya Sen breezed into the semis with a dominant senSindhu and Srikanth needed to work laborious for his or her winsAakarshi Kashyap’s CWG jouney got here to an finish on Saturday
Indian ace shuttlers Lakshya Sen and Kidambi Srikanth joined PV Sindhu within the semifinals of badminton on the Commonwealth Games on Saturday. However, Aakarshi Kashyap’s run got here to an finish within the quarterfinals.
Sen, who has exhibited good kind all through the length of the video games, defeated Mauritius’ Julien Georges Paul 21-12 21-11 in convincing vogue to ebook his place within the closing 4 of the boys’s singles competitors.
For Sindhu and Srikanth, the win did not come straightforward and the Indian duo had been compelled to work laborious to get the win and progress to the semifinals on Saturday.
Sindhu took on Malaysia’s Goh Wei Jin within the quarterfinals and did not begin off brightly. The two-time Olympic medallist dropped the primary game19-21 to the World No.60.
However, she bounced again within the subsequent two video games and secured them with a scoreline of 21-14 21-18 to progress to the following spherical and maintain her medal hopes alive.
Srikanth additionally was removed from convincing in his quartefinal match towards England’s Toby Penty. The Indian ace secured the win with a scoreline of 21-19 21-17 win over the left-handed Penty, who’s ranked 54th on this planet.
It was a tough day for Aakarshi Kashyap as she misplaced to Scotland’s Kristy Gilmour, who has been a medal winner previously two editions of the Commonwealth Games. Kashyap, who was making her CWG debut, misplaced the ladies’s singles quarterfinal with a scoreline of 10-21 7-21.
India additionally loved success within the doubles division as Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty and Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly secured their passage into the semifinals.
Satwik and Chirag, ranked seventh on this planet, secured the win over Australia’s Jacob Schueler and Nathan Tang with a scoreline of 21-19 21-11. Gopichand and Jolly defeated Jamaica’s Katherine Jam and Tahila Richarson in a dominant efficiency that noticed them win the match 21-8 21-6.
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