Badminton World Championships Day 1 LIVE: Lakshya, Prannoy, Srikanth start with wins — Scores, Results, Blog

We start! Fantastic attacking game from Lakshya as he rushes to the net for the kill

Lakshya Sen makes a good start to this match and applies great pressure on his veteran Danish opponent, Vittinghus.

Sen leads 4-1.

Time for some Lakshya Sen brilliance!

This will be quite an interesting clash

We will be having Lakshya Sen in action next!

Fresh off his CWG gold win, Lakshya Sen will hope to get off to a good start as the 2021 bronze medallist from the Worlds will meet with Denmark's Vittinghus in the first round clash.

And a forehand return from Sumeeth finds the net, they lose the match...

Manu Attri and Sumeeth Reddy did attempt a good comeback in Game 2 but the Japanese were the better players as they overcome the Indian duo in a decider, 21-11, 19-21, 21-15

Costly errors from Manu Attri as the Japanese lead 19-14

Attri's return finds the net here...

Lot of pressure on the rally points here, the Japanese duo lead 14-8

Into the decider, we have intense rallies!

The Japanese pair keep their nose ahead at 8-4 but Sumeeth attacks from the back court!

Manu Attri and Sumeeth Reddy take the second game 21-19!

Sumeeth and Manu have game point opportunity at 20-17!

Manu Attri and Sumeeth take a 14-12 in this second game