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

2019 WCH bronze medallist Sai Praneeth faced an early exit

For B. Sai Praneeth, who won a historic bronze from the 2019 edition of the World Championships in Basel, it was quite the uphill task taking on Chinese Taipei's Chou Tien Chen, the World No. 4.

However, Praneeth, who has been struggling with injuries, was able to put up a good show and stretched the match to a decider against the seasoned Taiwanese star.

It was mirror scores everywhere as Praneeth went down fighting to CTC in three games.

For Mixed Doubles, Ishaan Bhatnagar and Tanisha Crasto also got the dream start!

Young duo of Ishaan Bhatnagar and Tanisha Crasto recorded a great win against a German pair of Patrick and Franziska to ease into the pre-quarters as well.

It has been a good morning in the doubles department alright! No upsets so far.

Perfect start for Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy in Women's Doubles

Veteran women's doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy got an easy-breezy start to their World Championships campaign as they took out Bangladeshi pair of Aminath & Fathima in straight games to progress into the pre-quarters.

A very good morning as we settle in for some quality badminton action coming our way!

It's set to be a packed day at the BWF World Championships with Indian shuttlers opening their campaign today for an elusive medal.

It's been quite the active morning too with 3 matches already contested, we have so many more lined up!

Let's take a look: