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  • Asian Games, Day 13 Live Updates: Prannoy, Satwik-Chirag in badminton semis, males’s criket tackle Bangladesh

    India received as many as 3 Gold medals, two in compound archery and 1 in squash, on Thursday because the nation headed towards its goal of 100 medals in Hangzhou Asian Games.

    India’s squash stars and compound archers led the medal rush on Day 12 of the Asian Games 2023 in Hangzhou. While the compound archery women and men’s groups received Gold medals, Dipika Pallikal and Harinder Pal Singh received Gold in combined doubles squash on a day when fellow veteran Saurav Ghosal clinched silver in males’s singles. Antim Panghal made certain the wrestler didn’t draw a clean on an action-packed day in Hangzhou.

    Click right here to learn the whole highlights on Day 12

     

  • Asian Games 2023, Day 9 Live Updates: Parul Chaudhary in steeplechase last, Ayhika-Sutirtha in TT semis

    India had a sensational run on Sunday within the Asian Games 2023. Indian athletes put up a terrific present to assist the nation cross 50 medals within the occasion. 

     

    Here’s the complete listing of athletes that gained medals on Sunday

    India’s medal winners on Day 8:

    Avinash Sable – Gold in males’s 300m steeplechase

    Tajinder Pal Singh Toor – Gold in males’s shot put

    Harmilan Bains – Silver in girls’s 1500m

    Murali Sreeshankar – Silver males’s lengthy leap

    Nandini Agasara – Bronze in girls’s heptathlon

    Seema Punia – Bronze in girls’s discus throw

    Jyothi Yarraji – Silver in girls’s 110m hurdles

    Ajay Kumar – Silver in males’s 1500

    Jinson Johnson – Bronze in males’s 1500m

    Indian males’s crew – Silver in badminton crew occasion

    Aditi Ashok – Silver in girls’s particular person golf

    Indian girls’s lure crew – Silver in crew lure capturing

    Indian males’s lure crew – Gold in crew lure capturing

    Kynan Darius Chenai – Bronze in males’s lure last

    Nikhat Zareen – Bronze in girls’s 50kg boxing

  • Not each Asian Games medal weighs the identical

    With 254 medals, 79 of them golds, India firmly sits within the third spot all-time checklist on the Asian Games. What comes as stark distinction is that India are 61st within the Olympics, tied sixty fifth with Tunisia and Burkina Faso within the World Championships and fifteenth on the Commonwealth Games.

    Indians have at all times fared properly on the Asian circuit with China and Japan being their solely main rivals. India will even be cautious of African athletes adopted by oil-rich nations like Qatar and Bahrain within the endurance occasions. India bagged 20 medals in Jakarta and can certainly surpass the tally in Hangzhou. A medal rush shouldn’t shock anybody.

    The Men’s 4×400 relay quartet of Amoj Jacob, Rajesh Ramesh, Mohd Anas and Ajmal Variyathodi with 2:59.05 that completed fifth at Budapest are contemporary from two historic back-to-back sub-3 minute races and clear favourites to take gold. (WR: 2:54.29s – USA). In Men’s Javelin (WR:98.48 Jan Zelezny, AR: 91.36m Chao Tsun-Cheng), Neeraj Chopra is the favorite to carry dwelling the gold however Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem will certainly give him stiff competitors.

    In Women’s 100m hurdles (WR: 12.12s Tobi Amusan AR: 12.44s Olga Shishigina), Jyothi Yarraji is at the moment within the second spot within the Asia season’s finest checklist behind China’s Yani Wu. The ladies’s quick hurdles might be one of the crucial thrilling occasions with 8 of the highest 10 from the Asia checklist having clocked sub-13-second races this season.

    Strength of the sphere:

    Neeraj Chopra & Arshad Nadeem (India & Pakistan): gold-silver on the 2023 Budapest World Championships in Javelin; Winfred Yavi (Nigeria-born Bahrainian): gold at 2023 Worlds in 3000m steeplechase; Gong Lijiao (China): 3 Olympic & 8 World Championship medals in shot put; Wang Jianan (China): gold at 2022 Worlds in lengthy leap; Zhu Yaming (China): silver at Tokyo Games and bronze at Euegene World Championships in lengthy leap.

    Indian medal hopes: Jyothi Yarraji (100m hurdles), 4x400m males’s relay crew, Tajinder Toor (Shot put), Sreeshankar Murali and Jeswin Aldrin (lengthy leap), Shaili Singh (lengthy leap), Vithya Ramraj (400mH), Praveen Chitravel (triple leap), Neeraj Chopra (javelin), Avinash Sable (steeplechase), Tejaswin Shankar (decathlon), Parul Chaudhary (steeplechase)

    Smart stat: Jyothi Yarraji has clocked 7 official sub-13s hurdles this year- probably the most by any Asian this season up to now. Asuka Terada of Japan has 5, Asia season chief Yani Wu of China has 4, Yumi Tanka and Masumi Aoki of Japan have 4 every.

    – Andrew Amsan

    Jyothi Yarraji

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    Archery: Compound curiosity

    India’s fortunes in archery are more likely to range within the two types – compound and recurve.

    Of late, India has been one of many strongest sides in compound archery, a format that doesn’t discover a place within the Olympic programme. They are the top-ranked facet within the compound blended crew occasion, and second in each males’s and girls’s competitions. Jyothi Surekha Vennam has been in nice type not too long ago, and ranked third on the earth as has Aditi Gopichand. The likes of Abhishek Verma – an Asian Games gold medallist himself – and Ojas Pravin Deotale will be anticipated to excel on the large stage. Korea and Chinese Taipei are the opposite main contenders in compound archery, however India ought to be an excellent wager for a podium end, and on an excellent day, gold.

    It is anticipated to be a lot harder within the recurve self-discipline with Indians a lot decrease within the particular person rankings. Koreans are the dominant pressure right here, although Dhiraj Bommadevara not too long ago upset prime ranked Kim Woojin on the World Cup finals. China, Chinese Taipei and Japan are additionally fairly robust. The Indian males’s and girls’s groups are ranked among the many prime 10 on the earth, however the competitors is anticipated to be intense, particularly within the males’s part, nearly at Olympic ranges. India doesn’t have a single recurve archer – man or lady – within the prime 15, and any medal within the particular person or crew occasions might be a commendable effort.

    Strength of the sphere: Aditi Gopichand Swami & Ojas Pravin Deotale (India): Individual world champions in compound; Korea: Recurve Men’s crew & Recurve Mixed crew world champions; Kim Woojin (Korea): Recurve males’s file holder (1391/1440).

    Indian medal hopes: Ojas Pravin Deotale, Abhishek Verma, Prathamesh Samadhan Jawkar (Compound males); Aditi Gopichand Swami (Compound ladies); Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Aditi Gopichand Swami, Parneet Kaur (Compound ladies’s crew); Ojas Pravin Deotale, Abhishek Verma , Prathamesh Samadhan Jawkar (Compound males’s crew)

    Smart stat: South Korea has been the perfect nation in archery on the Asian Games ever because the 1982 Delhi version, successful 42 of 60 gold medals until date. The subsequent finest is Japan with 8 gold. India has received 10 medals (1 gold, 4 silver, 5 bronze).

    – Tushar Bhaduri

    ndia’s Jyothi Surekha Vennam (left) and Ojas Pravin Deotale

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    Badminton: Tougher than Olympics

    India has by no means received an Asian Games gold in badminton, and that’s down to only how significantly the powerhouses China, Indonesia, Korea and Japan take the Asian Games in shuttle. Medalling at Asiad is an enormous deal and don’t be shocked if prime shuttlers peak at Hangzhou even shrugging off the World Championships as lead-ups. Going deep into the Asian Games draw is harder than Olympics, at instances.
    For most, the frustration of the Worlds affords a chance of a bounce-back at Asiad on 2023’s best stage, for even the early rounds can get tough at Hangzhou in comparison with Copenhagen. Satwik-Chirag, India’s finest bets, will even have the hardest opponents, with the Chinese and Indonesian pairings smarting from losses at World’s searching for redemption and enjoying at dwelling, and the Koreans emboldened after their shock triumph.

    Prannoy is the person in type and can as soon as once more shepherd India’s Thomas Cup crew aiming for the boys’s crew title, a sensible expectation. Sindhu and Srikanth have been in detached type, however an Asian Games medal can salvage the season, particularly for Srikanth. An particular person males’s medal that India final received in 1982 by means of Syed Modi although, might be a prized possession.

    Strength of the sphere: All 5 reigning world champions in 5 classes at the moment are Asians; An Se Young, Korea (WS), Kunlavut Vitidsarn, Thailand (MS), Seo Seung-jae – Kang Min-hyuk, Korea (MD), Seo Seung-jae – Chae Yoo-jung, Korea (XD), Chen Qing-chen – Jia Yifan, China (WD)

    India medal hopes: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty, HS Prannoy, Men’s crew

    Smart Stat: Of the 121 Olympic medals in badminton since 1992, a staggering 106 have been received by Asians, the remaining 15 by Europeans.

    – Shivani Naik

    HS Prannoy

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    Hockey: Only gold commonplace

    The males’s crew goes into the Asian Games gingerly optimistic figuring out that they’re only one mind fade away from a repeat of Jakarta.

    India’s rise on the earth has coincided with the collective decline of Asian hockey and they’re in a snug place to reclaim the gold medal they final received on the 2014 Asiad. The actual take a look at for India lies exterior Asia however to compete on the Olympics, they need to go this take a look at on condition that the Asian Games can be an Olympic qualifier.

    And that’s typically tough. Malaysia, the one facet aside from India to characteristic on the earth prime 10, are a banana pores and skin opponent.

    While a gold is the naked minimal expectation from the boys’s crew, it’ll be harder for the ladies. Four Asian groups occupy the six spots – between quantity 7 (India) and 12 (South Korea) – on the earth rankings. And so, whereas Europe is the dominant pressure, ladies’s hockey in Asia is carefully contested and is much extra open than the boys’s recreation.

    An improve from silver they received in Jakarta might be an enormous feat for the Indian ladies, who purpose for a third-straight Olympic look.

    Strength of the sphere: There are not any present world champions from Asia.

    Indian medal hopes: The males’s crew, ranked third on the earth, is an outright favorite to win the gold whereas the ladies, who received silver in Jakarta, must overcome stiff competitors to go one step additional.

    Smart Stat: Four Asian groups occupy the six spots in world rating between quantity 7 (India) and 12 (South Korea), underlining how shut all groups are.

    – Mihir Vasavda

    The males’s crew, ranked third on the earth, is an outright favorite to win the gold

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    Shooting: Best in enterprise

    The Asian Games might not be as a lot of a cheerful looking floor for Indians as say the Commonwealth Games, however there may be positively an uptick in medals at this degree if in comparison with the World Championships or the Olympics.

    Take into consideration India’s Jakarta Asian Games tally. Coming into the match with a lot of who have been thought-about to be a trailblazing group of shooters, India received two gold medals, 4 silvers and three bronze medals to return third within the total tally.

    Ahead of them have been perennial superpowers in capturing in South Korea and China. Both these international locations historically do higher than India on the Olympic degree, with China routinely taking gold medals on the again of their superlative shot groupings.

    At the not too long ago concluded World Championships, two Indians received bronze medals whereas the 10m air pistol blended crew occasion noticed a gold medal.

    At the Asian degree, Indians with barely decrease qualification scores may discover themselves making finals and as soon as at that place, an excellent day within the workplace can land a medal. That scenario is a far departure from the World’s or the Olympics the place qualification scores should be elite to be able to even make the ultimate. In 2021 at Tokyo, solely Saurabh Chaudhary reached the ultimate of his occasion. This time round, Chaudhary, who’s the defending champion within the 10m air pistol occasion, shouldn’t be even part of the Asian Games squad.

    Strength of the sphere: Women’s 10m Air rifle: (Chn) Han Jiayu (World Champion), Han Jiayu (World Record); Men’s 10m Air rifle: Victor Lindgren (World champion), Yu Haonan (world file)

    Indian medal hopes: Rudrankksh Patil, Mehuli Ghosh

    Smart Stat: India’s finest capturing efficiency on the Asian Games got here in 2006 when the crew mixed to gather three golds, 5 silvers and 6 bronze medals for a complete of 14

    – Shashank Nair

    Mehuli Ghosh

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    Boxing: Teeming with Worlds medals

    At the 2018 Asian Games, India had a disappointing marketing campaign the place none of its ladies boxers received a medal and the lone vibrant spot of the marketing campaign was Amit Panghal, who beat the then reigning world champion to carry gold. Vikas Krishnan received a bronze as properly.

    But this Asian Games may see an uptick for Indian boxers primarily based purely on the variety of world champions current within the squad. Nikhat Zareen, Lovlina Borgohain, Deepak Bhoria and Nishant Dev are all reigning World Championship medallists

    At the Asian degree, the decrease weight classes are the place the problem lies. For Zareen, a two-time World’s gold medallist this Asian Games might be a primary and an opportunity to not solely gauge the place she lies in Asia, but in addition to decipher how her bouts might be judged at this degree, sans the IBA working the programme.

    For Lovlina Borgohain, a gold ought to be the minimal. Out of the CWG, World’s and Olympics, this might be the simplest setting for her to win one. She can be the present reigning Asian champion, a title she received in Amman in 2022.

    Strength of the sphere: Men’s 71kg – Aslanbek Shymbergenov (World Champion); Men’s 51kg – Hasanboy Dusmatov (World Champion)

    Indian medal hopes: Nikhat Zareen (51 kg), Lovlina Borgohain (75 kg), Nishant Dev (71 kg), Deepak Bhoria (51 kg)

    Smart Stat: Both of the Indian medal winners from the 2018 Asian Games in boxing haven’t been chosen as a part of the squad this time round. While Deepak Bhoria was chosen over Amit Panghal, Vikas Krishan’s comeback try has not fared properly.

    – Shashank Nair

    Lovlina Borgohain

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    Weightlifting: Heavy lifting

    At the continuing 2023 World Weightlifting Championships, of the 11 medal occasions which were accomplished up to now, 9 gold medals have gone the way in which of Asian lifters. Asia unquestionably dominates the world of weightlifting, holding 40 out of 47 lifting world information.

    India’s weightlifting contingent might have finished exceedingly properly on the Commonwealth Games, returning with 13 medals, however with the Asian Games coming within the run as much as the Olympics subsequent 12 months, and North Korea – a weightlifting powerhouse – returning to each occasions, the true take a look at among the many world’s finest ought to come on Hangzhou.

    Strength of the sphere: Huihua Jiang (China) broke each the clear and jerk (120kg), and whole (215kg), world information for the 49kg class on the ongoing weightlifting worlds

    Indian medal hopes: Mirabai Chanu

    Smart Stat: Having but to breach the 90kg lifting mark in snatch, Mirabai Chanu’s energy has been the clear and jerk.

    – Namit Kumar

    Mirabai Chanu

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    Kabaddi: Wary of Iran

    After making it to the 1982 Asian Games as an exhibition sport, Kabaddi has grow to be a daily characteristic at each occasion because the 1990 Games in Beijing. It can be a sport that India has at all times dominated. But after successful each gold on the Asian Games, the Indian women and men have been shocked by Iran on the 2018 Games in Jakarta.

    For the file, the Indian males received seven gold whereas the ladies received two (Kabaddi for ladies was launched on the Asian Games solely in 2010).

    Iran, who’ve perennially performed second fiddle to India, shocked the boys within the semifinal in Jakarta, beating them by a powerful 14 factors. The Iranian ladies shocked their Indian opponents 27-24 within the remaining to provide Iran a kabaddi double on the Games.

    The Indians appear to be motivated to avenge their loss and are eager to place the reminiscences of Jakarta behind them with not one of the 12 gamers within the males’s squad making the minimize to the crew this time round.
    The males will even take coronary heart from the truth that they’ve crushed Iran twice on the Asian Kabaddi Championships which concluded in July this 12 months. Even at these Championships, nonetheless, it was Iran who made them break a sweat and so they’ll positively be cautious of them.

    Strength of the sphere: India’s Kabaddi crew (males’s) is by far probably the most profitable nationwide crew, successful gold medals on the Asian Games a whopping seven instances — 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014. India have dominated the Kabaddi World Cup as properly, successful all three occasions held so far.

    Indian medal hopes: Nothing however a gold medal is anticipated from each the boys’s and the ladies’s crew on the Asian Games. After each the groups misplaced to Iran on the final Games in Jakarta, the strain is on them to reclaim the gold.

    Smart stat: India misplaced to Pakistan within the 1993 South Asian Games gold medal match. However, in what was an intense grudge match, they exacted revenge on the 1998 Asian Games held in Bangkok, the place India beat Pakistan within the remaining.

    – Anil Dias

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    Rowing: China dominates amidst weak Asian presence

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    What was particular concerning the rowing bronze medal received by China’s Duan Liang on the 2016 Rio Olympics? It was the primary particular person Olympic medal for an Asian rower.

    Being a predominantly colonial sport, dominated by international locations just like the US, UK, Germany, and Australia, Rowing doesn’t have a lot world resonance. While China has seen cheap success in rowing on the Olympics over time, successful 2 golds and 12 medals in whole and their ladies’s quad sculls crew breaking the world file at Tokyo 2020, no different Asian nation has ever been on the rostrum on the quadrennial occasion, making the competitors on the Hangzhou Asian Games, exterior the hosts, tame.

    In reality, of the 15 medal occasions on the 2018 Asian Games, together with the boys’s quad sculls during which India received gold, the highest spot of the rostrum was occupied by China in 9.

    – Namit Kumar

  • Disappointed to not get gold at Worlds however bronze means quite a bit: Ace shuttler HS Prannoy

    COPENHAGEN: Star Indian shuttler HS Prannoy was a tad dissatisfied to overlook out on a World championships gold medal however stated the bronze meant quite a bit to him, calling it because the “first starting step” on the way in which to the coveted title.

    Prannoy’s dream run on the World Championships ended after he misplaced 21-18 13-21 14-21 to world quantity 3 Kunlavut Vitidsarn of Thailand within the males’s singles semifinal to log off with a bronze medal.

    The win prolonged India’s report of getting at the least one medallist within the showpiece since 2011.

    “For me, this bronze medal means so much personally because it has been almost 12 years in the circuit, you always want to have those big medals in your hand,” he stated after the match. “Yes, you are disappointed for not getting the gold but the first starting step is with bronze.”

    ALSO READ | Prannoy tames World No 1 Axelsen, ensures World Championship medal

    The 31-year-old from Kerala thanked the teaching employees and his household for backing him.

    “A lot of people has done a lot of hard work in the last few years and a lot of things came in place this week. Thanks to all of them who have been working day and night with me so that I can play better and my entire family backing me from home,” he stated.

    “It is not easy because you are in the circuit the entire year and hardly get time for family and friend, sometimes it takes a load. So, these kind of sweet memories are always good, you are feel motivated to go back and work, otherwise it is really tough to do the whole thing.”

    The 31-year-old Prannoy squandered a gap recreation benefit and a 5-1 lead within the second as Vitidsarn, a three-time former world junior champion, displayed his psychological fortitude and strong defence to seal a second successive last spot.

    FROM OUR ARCHIVES | My son is a champion now: HS Prannoy’s father

    Prannoy was coming into the match after taking part in two three-game matches which lasted near 70 minutes and he admitted it took a toll on his physique.

    “When you are on the court you feel you have done everything but when you finish off, you feel you could have done more. Physically I couldn’t push through today, the legs were not in great shape,” the world quantity 9 stated.

    India’s top-ranked males’s singles shuttler made a strong begin however indicators of exhaustion set in from the second recreation.

    “I was trying hard from inside, not letting go easily but credit to him he was putting in shuttle continuously at a good speed and not making any easy errors at any point,” he stated.

    “At the third recreation, I misplaced that first half, it was essential. You cannot be down 5-1. I’ve to essentially respect how my physique taking such matches, it’s not straightforward to play 70 minutes again to again for 4 days. 

    “He is much younger, he is able to recover much faster. But I am really happy with the way things went this week.”

    Notwithstanding the loss, it was an excellent achievement for Prannoy as he grew to become solely the fifth Indian males’s singles participant to win a World Championships medal.

    Kidambi Srikanth (silver), Lakshya Sen (bronze), B Sai Praneeth (bronze) and Prakash Padukone (bronze) are the opposite medallists in males’s singles.

    COPENHAGEN: Star Indian shuttler HS Prannoy was a tad dissatisfied to overlook out on a World championships gold medal however stated the bronze meant quite a bit to him, calling it because the “first starting step” on the way in which to the coveted title.

    Prannoy’s dream run on the World Championships ended after he misplaced 21-18 13-21 14-21 to world quantity 3 Kunlavut Vitidsarn of Thailand within the males’s singles semifinal to log off with a bronze medal.

    The win prolonged India’s report of getting at the least one medallist within the showpiece since 2011.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “For me, this bronze medal means so much personally because it has been almost 12 years in the circuit, you always want to have those big medals in your hand,” he stated after the match. “Yes, you are disappointed for not getting the gold but the first starting step is with bronze.”

    ALSO READ | Prannoy tames World No 1 Axelsen, ensures World Championship medal

    The 31-year-old from Kerala thanked the teaching employees and his household for backing him.

    “A lot of people has done a lot of hard work in the last few years and a lot of things came in place this week. Thanks to all of them who have been working day and night with me so that I can play better and my entire family backing me from home,” he stated.

    “It is not easy because you are in the circuit the entire year and hardly get time for family and friend, sometimes it takes a load. So, these kind of sweet memories are always good, you are feel motivated to go back and work, otherwise it is really tough to do the whole thing.”

    The 31-year-old Prannoy squandered a gap recreation benefit and a 5-1 lead within the second as Vitidsarn, a three-time former world junior champion, displayed his psychological fortitude and strong defence to seal a second successive last spot.

    FROM OUR ARCHIVES | My son is a champion now: HS Prannoy’s father

    Prannoy was coming into the match after taking part in two three-game matches which lasted near 70 minutes and he admitted it took a toll on his physique.

    “When you are on the court you feel you have done everything but when you finish off, you feel you could have done more. Physically I couldn’t push through today, the legs were not in great shape,” the world quantity 9 stated.

    India’s top-ranked males’s singles shuttler made a strong begin however indicators of exhaustion set in from the second recreation.

    “I was trying hard from inside, not letting go easily but credit to him he was putting in shuttle continuously at a good speed and not making any easy errors at any point,” he stated.

    “At the third recreation, I misplaced that first half, it was essential. You cannot be down 5-1. I’ve to essentially respect how my physique taking such matches, it’s not straightforward to play 70 minutes again to again for 4 days. 

    “He is much younger, he is able to recover much faster. But I am really happy with the way things went this week.”

    Notwithstanding the loss, it was an excellent achievement for Prannoy as he grew to become solely the fifth Indian males’s singles participant to win a World Championships medal.

    Kidambi Srikanth (silver), Lakshya Sen (bronze), B Sai Praneeth (bronze) and Prakash Padukone (bronze) are the opposite medallists in males’s singles.

  • HS Prannoy ensures himself a maiden World Championship medal by outlasting World No.1 Viktor Axelsen, enters semis

    HS Prannoy introduced in a lifetime’s grit, an unapologetic assault and 68 minutes of tactical brilliance to the courtroom as he utterly out-thought, out-manoeuvred and outplayed defending champion Viktor Axelsen 13-21, 21-15, 21-16 within the quarterfinals to safe a coveted medal on the World Championships. He completed with a standing ovation from the Copenhagen crowd that couldn’t assist however respect the incisive manner wherein their house hero was humbled by the sensible Indian.

    First Prannoy lulled Axelsen into believing he had a grip on this quarterfinal, as he took his time to regulate to the cadence of the rallies and fell again within the opener 21-13. Then the Indian Top Tenner began turning the screws, and teased out one error after one other, from lengthy, languorous rallies to construct up a lead within the second set and exert strain of trailing on the Dane. At the Japan Open final month, when Prannoy stole a 21-19 opening set from Axelsen, he had sowed sufficient seeds of doubt. On a furiously exacting Friday on the World’s with Axelsen underneath strain at house, Prannoy might reap the advantages of leaving Axelsen with a weary, cautious feeling that day in Japan, having despatched throughout the message that he had photographs in his arsenal to deeply bother him.

    Making the large man retrieve actually low photographs on the internet, and sending off sufficient deep smashes to go away him unsteady and uncertain behind the courtroom, alternating this theme with untiring persistence, Prannoy neatly constructed a demon into Axelsen’s head. And then when the errors got here in informal and determined, he turned the knife within the third.

    India had simply suffered the stunning exit of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty to the Danish pair of Astrup-Rasmussen and had been in peril of leaving the World Championships with out a medal for the primary time since 2010. But deep in Axelsen’s coronary heart and within the nervous crowd, they knew that Prannoy might make his life on this version terribly tough, and decide that medal. The Indian took his time in lengthy rallies, selecting Axelsen’s snappy assault – as soon as with a 360 pirouette however usually with facet dives – to chomp into the Dane’s reassurance that his vary of photographs had been sufficient. They weren’t. And after the second set the place he made too many errors, or was pushed to err by the Indian, he was left telling his coaches that Prannoy was studying all his assault, and he was working out of choices.

    H.S. Prannoy 🇮🇳 silences the Royal Arena with a efficiency for the ages in opposition to house favorite Viktor Axelsen 🇩🇰.#BWFWorldChampionships #Copenhagen2023 pic.twitter.com/8QVvOBOAAp

    — BWF (@bwfmedia) August 25, 2023

    Central to Prannoy’s success was his command on the internet. There had been fewer fancy strokes, simply onerous nosed tight dribbles and counter dribbles, and no quantity of menace of Axelsen’s famed smashes made him again off from the online. Because he was unflappable on the internet and stealing errors from there too, Axelsen was compelled to go for the extravagant assault, and progressively tiring, the 29-year-old would smash into the online usually or drift huge.

    At 4-5 within the second, Prannoy missed a cross smash to seal a 40 shot rally, however remainder of the resurgent set, he revved up on the straight, no-holds-barred smashing assault. Axelsen is tall and has a mighty defensive vary on the flanks, but it surely should’ve been an intimidating sight to observe Prannoy add ounces of energy with every subsequent stroke in a rally as he approached the online on followups.

    The Indian went from 7-7 to steer 11-9, with an exquisite inside out return of serve. His precision on the photographs to the again courtroom out-scored Axelsen’s. The hand velocity elevated mightily after the break, as he hit the subsequent gear, and his error-free assault stored consuming into Axelsen’s confidence.

    By 17-10, Axelsen was shrugging and slumping at again to again errors. The mammoth 47 shot rally at 19-14 although broke his again. Both despatched courageous but exhausted photographs backwards and forwards, but it surely was Axelsen who dumped a drained smash into the online. Prannoy’s criss-cross assault would additional unsettle Axelsen to succeed in set level at 20-14, and the Indian would present he had the legs to run a 3rd, on the ultimate level of the second. Prannoy’s diving protection to the best on the internet was adopted by scurrying to the left, drawing out a cross error. Viktor was susceptible now.

    Coming again after dropping the primary sport, it was all about perception for Prannoy.#BWFWorldChampionships | #Copenhagen2023 pic.twitter.com/1EdEAu2UtR

    — The Olympic Games (@Olympics) August 25, 2023

    Prannoy had joked after beating Loh Kean Yew, the 2021 World champion by the way, that his physio would wish to work into the night time to organize him for the subsequent day’s struggle. But it has been three seasons of prepping for this second, for this lengthy coveted World’s medal by essentially the most constant participant amongst Indians.

    Battling accidents and well being points, Prannoy had watched all of it come collectively this season when he lastly gained his first Super 500 title at Malaysia. But it nonetheless wanted that medal at World’s to cement his greatness in 2023. The decider needed to be stolen from Axelsen.

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    By the time the decider rolled in, Axelsen was smashing wild, and it was evident the large smash was his solely go-to. Prannoy’s protection absorbed the ferocity of the
    quick exchanges, and a few of the midcourt smashes. Prannoy was controlling the entrance courtroom from the second set, within the third taking a 11-6 lead, he made the online his personal, and compelled Axelsen to go for the traces. At 13-8 the Indian went for a physique assault, whereas his shot at 14-9 grabbed a snatch of the sideline. So certain was Prannoy of the linesman name being fallacious, he staked his closing problem on it. Unlike in opposition to Loh, Prannoy didn’t see the necessity to go for deep deception. His energy packed assault – straight and alongside the traces – sufficed on the day, because the lead burgeoning. Axelsen despatched three photographs lengthy within the closing levels and was a defeated man in his thoughts by now, out of concepts and out of firepower.

    The house contender was watching his title slip by, and erred once more on the web to present Prannoy match level at 20-15. Prannoy would smash wild at 20-16, a uncommon intemperance. But would calm himself right down to ship a straight whip alongside the road, as Axelsen in no place to return on that angle, drifted it huge. Prannoy had chiseled his win, one scrape of the wooden at a time, and one among India’s most interesting shuttlers lastly had his deserving Worlds medal at 31. Thai Kunlavut Vitidsarn who additionally beat Axelsen in the beginning of the yr along with his management protection, performs Prannoy subsequent. He would possibly want greater than protection to cease the Indian, who at present appears like he can resolve any puzzle, and has the unbridled energy and precision to go the gap.

    There was little to no celebrations in the long run, although Prannoy had waited lengthy to medal from his third quarterfinal look. He is aware of he has a gold in him, the fist pumps and roars can crescendo two days later.

  • HS Prannoy, Parupalli Kashyap sail into pre-quarters of Taipei Open

    Indian shuttlers HS Prannoy and Parupalli Kashyap cruised into the lads’s singles pre-quarterfinals of the Taipei Open with straight sport wins over their respective rivals right here on Wednesday.

    World quantity 9 Prannoy hardly broke a sweat as he took simply 26 minutes to dispatch native shuttler Lin Yu-hsien 21-11 21-10 within the opening spherical of the BWF World Tour Super 300 match.

    The third-seeded Prannoy, who claimed the Malaysia Masters Super 300 title final month, will subsequent tackle Indonesia’s Tommy Sugiarto within the males’s singles second spherical.

    Former Commonwealth Games gold medallist Kashyap too notched up a simple 21-15 21-16 over Germany’s Samuel Hsiao. He will tackle native favorite Su Li Yang within the pre-quarterfinals.

    National champion Mithun Manjunath put up a splendid combat earlier than happening to second-seed and native favorite Chou Tien Chen 18-21 21-14 16-21 in a one-hour 11 minutes battle.

    Tanya Hemanth was the lone Indian to win within the ladies’s singles as she handed a 21-7 21-17 loss to Agnes Korosi of Hungary.

    But a tricky second spherical awaits the 19-year-old Indian as she is up towards World Championship and Olympic silver medallist Tai Tzu Ying, the match top-seed.

    In the combined doubles, Sikki Reddy and Rohan Kapoor beat compatriots Navaneeth Bokka and Priya Konjengbam 21-14 21-17 in all-Indian tie.

    Sikki and Rohan will meet Chiu Hsiang Chieh and Lin Xiao Min within the pre-quarters.

    However, it was the tip of the highway for S Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian, Kiren George, Meiraba Luwang Maisnam, Sathish Kumar Karunakaran, Ruthvika Shivani Gadde and Akarshi Kashyap.

    Subramanian offered some resistance within the opening sport however was fully outplayed within the second sport by sixth seed Japanese shuttler Kanta Tsunyama to go down 13-21 5-21 in his males’s singles opening spherical.

    Kiren, alternatively, fought laborious earlier than going to Malaysia’s Leoong Jun Hao 20-22 21-12 9-21 whereas Meiraba Luwang Maisnam misplaced to fifth seed Hong Kong shuttler NG Ka Long Angus 18-21 17-2.

    Sathish was handed a straight sport (10-21 10-21) defeat by native favorite Chi Yu Jen.

    Among ladies, Gadde misplaced to native shuttler Chiu Pin-Chian 12-21 5-21 whereas Akarshi squandered a one sport result in lose 21-10 16-21 11-21 to Huang Yu-Hsun.

    The BWF World Tour is split into six ranges, specifically World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, and Super 300 so as.

    One different class of match, the BWF Tour Super 100 stage, additionally gives rating factors. Each of those tournaments gives totally different rating factors and prize cash.

  • I didn’t rely on this might happen nonetheless Gopi sir saved pushing me: HS Prannoy

    Sleep-deprived Indian shuttler HS Prannoy had almost given up on worthwhile his subsequent title and breaking a six-year prolonged drought sooner than chief nationwide coach Pullela Gopichand instilled in him the concept he stays an influence to reckon with.

    On Sunday, Prannoy ended the title drought with a three-game win over China’s Weng Hong Yang in a pulsating males’s singles finals on the Malaysia Masters Super 500 occasion proper right here.

    “I think there are too many emotions. The last six years have been too much of a rollercoaster. I didn’t expect that it will happen after six years to be honest. I mean if you would have asked me in 2017 I don’t think I would have told you that I will win in 2023. So lots of mixed emotions,” Prannoy acknowledged after the title triumph.

    “Thanks to all the coaches, support staff and Gopi sir (chief national coach Pullela Gopichand). He kept telling me that it will happen one day and I should keep believing,” he added.

    The 30-year-old Prannoy, who’s ranked ninth on the earth and India’s most interesting at the moment, moreover thanked his former teammate RMV Gurusai Dutt, who turned to instructing after retiring in June ultimate yr, for serving to him out in his hour of need.

    “Thanks to Guru, last four months we have worked really hard and the results finally came out.” The BWF World Tour is break up into six ranges, particularly World Tour Finals, 4 Super 1000, six Super 750, seven Super 500, and 11 Super 300 in order. One totally different class of occasion, the BWF Tour Super 100 stage, moreover affords ranking components.

    The Super 500 is a Grade 2 (stage 4) event throughout the BWF occasion ranking system.

    He acknowledged he has not slept successfully throughout the ultimate three days.

    “I haven’t been sleeping well for last three days, my team was a bit worried that I am not sleeping. There was so much emotion, you are excited to come out and play in front of this beautiful crowd.” Prannoy was instrumental in India’s epic Thomas Cup victory ultimate yr nonetheless an individual title has eluded him given that 2017 US Open Grand Prix Gold.

    This week nonetheless, Prannoy gave ample present of his fortitude as he outfoxed his opponents — world amount 5 Chou Tien Chen, All England champion Li Shi Feng and Japan’s Kenta Nishimoto — in three video video games on resolution to the title battle.

    “The draw was really highly effective for me, I had highly effective matches. I wanted to really dig deep throughout the 4 matches. It all went to the wire. It reveals how so much I was affected particular person and my well being was moreover first fee.

    “To beat such avid gamers is simply not simple. The conditions had been sluggish and I wanted to carry in there and I did that.

    “The first thing is to keep aside the competition within ourselves, the competition is with myself. I think it is really important for me to be consistent whatever I do and results will follow.” Prannoy has battled a set of accidents and nicely being factors sooner than turning his occupation spherical throughout the once more end of 2021.

    “I needs to be good adequate which tournaments to play and which to once more out and put together in between the tournaments, these are the vital factor components on account of the number of tournaments are literally really extreme and we have got to be good.

    “It (the triumph) gives a great deal of insights. When you dig deep and win such matches, that helps you uncover a great deal of hidden gems, you may be discovering these after a really very long time and realise that you’ll be able to do this.

    “That’s what happened in Malaysia, I could discover a lot of things and it will give me confidence to train and be ready for next few events.” Even as Prannoy appeared for that vast title triumph, former Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Gurusai Dutt has been his mounted companion.

    Guru felt together with a few footage to his repertoire of strokes helped Prannoy.

    “He has always been consistent. He just needed that one win. Gopi sir and myself we felt it was around the corner. He has beaten all the top players and it was about belief,” he knowledgeable PTI.

    Gurusai added, “This particular occasion, I felt he carried out some completely totally different strokes, similar to cross web and drops. He had added a number of footage which could open up his assault. Gopi sir had given some inputs and after we had been in Hyderabad, we labored on it.

    “But to aim it in match state of affairs is tough. It comes out of experience. People mustn’t ready for model new footage, these avid gamers play each other fairly so much, so these new strokes helped him.

  • Dismal current ends India’s Sudirman Cup advertising marketing campaign

    It was a 5-0 rout by the fingers of Malaysia as India had been knocked out of the Sudirman Cup on Monday – the loss coming after a 1-4 downing by Taiwan inside the group stage on Sunday. All the huge names copped losses and there was little to salvage from the dismal effectivity as India’s hopes ended all through the 2 days, with the final word inconsequential Australia tie hopefully used to examine the model new names.

    On Monday, the outcomes had been abysmal. Dhruv Kapila had stepped in for Satwiksairaj Rankireddy in males’s doubles on the Mixed Asian Team event, nevertheless he was not very environment friendly inside the blended doubles on the Sudirman Cup though Ashwini Ponappa and him tried what they could all through the 21-16, 21-17 loss to the right-left mixture of Goh Soon Huat/Lai SJ. In what had been transient rallies to start out with, the Indian duo lacked the sharpness of an on a regular basis pairing as they fell behind in every items and didn’t recuperate from the leads.

    When the defending obtained larger like at 16-19 inside the second all through an prolonged rally, the ultimate shot nonetheless sailed in depth, and the Malaysian combination was an extreme quantity of for the scratch Indian pair.

    Kidambi Srikanth took to the courtroom in opposition to Lee Zii Jia, who was in stylish contact on the day. As early as 8-10 inside the opener, after Lee obtained 6 of those remaining 8 elements, it turned clear that Srikanth might be in hassle when the Malaysian launched out his snappy shortest backswing smash scythe, and subsequent degree found the nook strains effectively. Lee pulled away at 12-17 and under no circumstances appeared once more.

    Srikanth primarily suffered because of all of his private strokes and assault merely couldn’t dent Lee’s sturdy long-span safety. Frustrated by each smashed shuttle coming correct once more at him, his errors when going for the strains compounded. Some, he over-hit into the web, others he sprayed in depth. With Srikanth, as quickly because the errors come, they gush out, and he struggled to stem the tide.

    At 9-20 inside the second, he found himself an open courtroom and nonetheless smashed in depth. He had tried all of the items – to hasten the tempo, Lee was up for it; forecourt deceptions, Lee picked all of them. His misery led to a 21-16, 21-11 loss.

    Perhaps primarily probably the most bizarre lack of her career, nevertheless PV Sindhu could battle to understand how she went from taking the opening set 21-14 in quarter-hour in opposition to Goh Jin Wei after which proceeded to play a howler of a second set riddled with so many errors, even the opponent appeared shocked.  But nothing can beat the fully wild rollercoaster that was the decider. Sindhu fell 3-13 behind, persevering with with the error strewn recreation of slashing at shuttles with seemingly no path to the hitting. All this whereas Goh was collaborating in a simple nevertheless exceptionally fixed recreation of sluggish drops to assemble elements previous Sindhu’s errors. The Malaysian was moreover tiring visibly while Sindhu went from 2-11 down to come back again inside a level of her at 14-15.

    Yet the errors saved tempo with the winners, and Goh would attain 16-19 with an almighty cross smash. Sindhu levelled at 20-20, nevertheless the day belonged to Goh Jin Wei who reversed a 0-3 career nose to nose rely with the 14-21, 21-10, 22-20 win.

    0-3 down inside the tie, and India had been out of the Sudirman Cup.

    Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty couldn’t reverse their 0-7 h-2-h in opposition to world champions Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik, with forecourt tempo as quickly as as soon as extra troubling them in fast exchanges. It’s a recreation mannequin they uncover awkward, and that continued inside the 21-18, 21-19 defeat to the Malaysians.

    Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand Pullela too flatlined on the day, unable to tug out the game which may stop spirited Malaysian pairing of Pearly Tan and Thinaah Muralitharan. It was a tepid current from the youthful Indians as they misplaced 21-15, 21-13.

  • Swiss Open 2023: Defending champion PV Sindhu crashes out in 2nd spherical, HS Prannoy and Kidambi Srikanth exit

    It was a tricky day for the Indian badminton followers on Wednesday on the Swiss Open 2023 as PV Sindhu, HS Prannoy, and Kidambi Srikkanth exited from the competitors with second-round losses. Mithun Manjunath’s defeat within the second spherical meant that India’s problem within the singles occasion ended.

    New Delhi,UPDATED: Mar 24, 2023 07:37 IST

    It was a tough day for Indian badminton followers on the Swiss Open (Courtesy: PTI)

    By India Today Sports Desk: It was a tough day for India on the Swiss Open 2023 on Wednesday, twenty third March as ace shuttles PV Sindhu, HS Prannoy and Kidambi Srikkanth exited from the competitors.

    Mithun Manjunath additionally bowed out from the competitors within the second spherical, which means that India’s singles problem on the Swiss Open has ended.

    Sindhu, the defending champion, misplaced to Indonesia’s Putri Kusuma Wardani in three video games with a scoreline of 15-21, 21-12, and 18-21 as her poor run in 2023 continued.

    The Commonwealth Games champion was dominated by the 20-year-old Wardani within the first recreation of the match. The second recreation began similarly with Sindhu trailing 6-7 at one level. But the Indian ace rallied again to take an 11-10 benefit into the break.

    After the break, Sindhu utterly dominated and outscored her opponent and took the sport 21-12 to push the match into the ultimate recreation.

    Wardani was in full management of the third recreation and raced to an 11-5 lead on the break. Sindhu as soon as once more confirmed her resilience and got here again into the competition, making 12-16 at one level. However, Wardani was too sturdy on the day and ended up successful the sport and the match.

    Prannoy had a day to neglect on Wednesday as he was defeated by Christo Popov in straight video games with a convincing scoreline of 8-21, 8-21. The 30-year-old Indian ace was one of many favorites heading into the competitors. But he appeared like a pale shadow of himself on Wednesday as he was soundly crushed by Popov.

    Srikanth put up a courageous combat in opposition to Hong Kong’s Cheuk Yiu Lee however in the end needed to take the loss on the day. The Indian ace was defeated 22-20, 21-17 in his second-round match.

    Manjunath bowed out of the Swiss Open within the second spherical after his straight video games loss to Chinese Taipei’s Chia Hao Lee. Lee defeated the Indian shuttler 21-19, 21-10 to advance to the following spherical.

    There was some pleasure for the Indian followers within the males’s doubles occasion because the duo of Satwik and Chirag progressed to the quarterfinals of the competitors with a 12-21, 21-17, and 28-26 win over Chinese Taipei pair Fang-Chih Lee and Fang-Jen Lee.

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  • Asian Mixed Team Championships: Progress in doubles a silver lining as India exit after semifinal loss to China

    The actual take a look at for Team India is the Sudirman Cup in May. But the takeaway from a first-ever bronze medal end on the Badminton Asian Mixed Team Championships is simply how reliable India’s younger doubles pairings have gotten in opposition to any prime group on the earth. Chirag Shetty and Dhruv Kapila in males’s doubles and Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand Pullela in girls’s doubles pulled off stunningly defiant wins in opposition to shuttle superpower China, who got a fright as India narrowly misplaced 3-2 at Dubai in semis on Saturday.

    Of particular significance was the ladies’s doubles win, with Treesa and Gayatri taking the battle of youngsters 21-18, 13-21, 21-19. China have come to Dubai with a younger group. But the Indians – equally younger – put of their third straight day of upsetting higher-rated opponents on the sheer energy of their composure. Treesa attacked relentlessly but additionally precisely, and Gayatri was greater than useful on the internet along with her personal positional offence.

    However, it was temperament on the clutch that stood out for the Indians in opposition to the Chinese, who led for the larger a part of the decider and particularly going into the house stretch. While Treesa-Gayatri additionally secured a Top 5 win on Thursday, this was the upper stress pump with having to maintain India in rivalry from the brink.

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    While India couldn’t tug the blended doubles their approach, Tanisha-Ishaan additionally displayed promise of forming right into a combating pair within the coming months.

    Earlier, India acquired their first level of the semifinal as as soon as once more Chirag Shetty and Dhruv Kapila pulled one again in opposition to He-Zhou rising 21-19, 21-19 winners. China led 2-1 at that juncture. It was Shetty’s cool bearing on the court docket as soon as once more, although Dhruv too neatly match into the Satwiksairaj Rankireddy’s notch, and was removed from being a weak hyperlink even when they have been pairing up just for the primary time. Fanning the backcourt, Dhruv matched Chirag on the winners and confirmed no nerves in opposition to the inexperienced however competent Young Chinese pair.

    China is a distinct beast in group occasions, even once they discipline two singles gamers exterior of the Top 100 who go scalping Indian Top Tenners. So even with HS Prannoy taking part in World No 121 Lei Lan Xi, it was assured that the standard of the participant could be ok. The left-handed shuttler packed fairly a punch along with his selection in strokes performed at a tempo a notch increased than to Prannoy’s consolation.

    Lan Xi moved fast and had the world No. 9 Prannoy in bother with drop photographs, in addition to the piercing arrow straight smash. Not many can declare to hit Prannoy on the physique assault since his protection tends to be reliable owing to his facet stance. But Lan Xi, who has solely performed on a bunch of International sequence, was relentless within the 21-13, 21-15 win as India went 0-1 down.

    Women’s singles turned trickier, although Gao Fang Jie held a 2-0 psychological benefit over PV Sindhu coming into the tie and left it with a 3-0 head-to-head. The tall Chinese – a lot within the Li Xuerui mould of a rangy sport – began with a blitz taking the opener 21-9. But Sindhu was up for the duty and introduced in her large sport to degree the units.

    A trademark of Sindhu’s badminton has all the time been the superior high quality of stroke play she is able to at the same time as a match wears down, and that was in proof once more. She acquired Gao along with her drops, however extra with clears to the baseline, with the Chinese World No 101’s misjudgment aiding her. However, Gao had her hooks and drops too on the clutch as she got here again from a three-point deficit to race to the end, amping her tempo. India have been 0-2 down as Gao beat PV Sindhu 21-9, 16-21, 21-18.

    The subsequent doubles wins meant both of the singles wins would have helped India make the historic finals. But only a few months earlier than Sudirman Cup, India will solely rely its positives within the wins over Malaysia and Hong Kong, and the strong fightback in each match in opposition to China, who together with Korea are group occasion powerhouses.