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Lakshya Sen’s heartbreaking loss to Lee Zii Jia of Malaysia within the bronze medal match within the 2024 Paris Olympics has confirmed the Indian badminton contingent’s failure to win a medal on the Video games. Following the loss, India’s badminton legend Prakash Padukone, the coach and mentor of the crew, said that it was “excessive time the gamers step up and win”. “All of the assist and funds wanted to carry out on the high stage got to the Indian gamers. It isn’t like earlier occasions when our gamers lacked services and funds. So, it is excessive time our gamers step up and win as anticipated,” Padukone advised reporters after Lakshya Sen misplaced his bronze medal match.
In addition to Sen’s spectacular efficiency, which noticed him turn out to be the primary Indian shuttler to achieve the semifinals of the boys’s singles occasion, the remainder exited the event in an underwhelming vogue.
P.V. Sindhu misplaced to China’s He Bing Jiao within the Spherical of 16 within the girls’s singles, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty misplaced to Malaysia’s Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik within the males’s doubles quarterfinals. H.S. Prannoy was eradicated by Lakshya Sen within the Spherical of 16 whereas Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto didn’t even make it out of the Group Stage within the girls’s doubles occasion.
“I’m slightly disenchanted in our efficiency that we couldn’t even get a single medal from Badminton. Like I’ve stated earlier than, we have been contenders for 3 medals so a minimum of one would have made me pleased. However having stated this, this time the Authorities, Sports activities Authority of India, and Sports activities Ministry everyone has finished their finest and I do not suppose anybody might have finished something greater than what the Authorities has finished so I feel the gamers additionally must take accountability,” added the veteran.
100% straight-talk from Prakash Padukone. Should watch. pic.twitter.com/n3ZdqpWkyZ
— Shiv Aroor (@ShivAroor) August 5, 2024
Lakshya Sen strongly began off the sport and claimed a snug 21-13 win within the first recreation. The second recreation noticed Lakshya get off to a powerful begin however a late cost by Lee Zii Jia noticed him take a strong 12-8 lead.
The Indian shuttler went off the boil and this noticed the Malaysian seal tie the sport 1-1 with a 16-21 victory within the second recreation. Sen was not capable of get again into the sport and was dominated within the remaining match as he misplaced 11-21 to finish his marketing campaign.
Padukone credited Sen’s loss to the Indian shuttler being ‘uncomfortable’ enjoying on the sooner facet of the court docket’.
“He performed effectively however in fact, I’m slightly disenchanted, he couldn’t end it yesterday too, he was in a profitable place within the first recreation, and will have in all probability made a distinction yesterday itself. After profitable the primary recreation he was main 8-3 at this time, he has at all times been slightly uncomfortable enjoying on the sooner facet so he has to work on that,” concluded Padukone.
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