Indian Sports Live Updates: March 18 — Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, and Sutirtha Mukherjee qualify for Olympics, Sindhu reached All-England Open Badminton 2021 quarters

Satwiksairaj Reddy/Chirag Shetty goes down in pre-quarterfinal against Denmark's Astrup-Rasmussen in three games 16-21, 21-11, 17-21

For the second time this month, they lose against the Danish pair — the previous loss coming in Swiss Open.

Ashwini Ponnappa/Sikki Reddy has pulled off a major upset beating the sixth-seeded pair from Bulgaria 21-17, 21-10 to reach the quarter-final of women's doubles in the 2021 All England Open Badminton Championships,

PV Sindhu comfortably gets the better of her young opponent from Denmark 21-8, 21-8 to reach the quarter-final of 2021 All England Badminton Open Championships. This was the first time the two shuttlers faced each other.

So, as things stand now, only Lakshya Sen and PV Sindhu have reached the last eight. Few more games to go.

A 13-point win in just 12 minutes by PV Sindhu in the opening game of her Round of 16 match against the 20-year-old Line Christophersen at the 2021 All-England Badminton Open Championships,

21-8 for Sindhu in first game.

A good fight by Sai Praneeth but he could not hold to the first game lead, going down 21-15, 12-21, 12-21 to World No. 2 Victor Axelsen in the Round of 16 at the All-England Badminton Open 2021.

Only Sameer Verma (pre-QF) and Lakshya Sen (QF) left in men's singles event.

Axelsen has roared back, winning the second game 21-12 and is now leading Sai Praneeth 11-8 at the break of third game.

Sai Praneeth floors Victor Axelsen with five consecutive points to close the first game at 21-15.

Sai Praneeth is now up against World No. 2 Victor Axelsen. The Indian has a 1-4 head-to-head record against the Danish but has actually started well leading 15-10 in the first game.

News from Indian football. Kickstart FC today became the champions of Karnataka Women's League after a 1-0 victory over Bangalore United on the final day of the league. They will be representing Karnataka in the Indian Women's League later this year.

The Bridge live streamed all matches from the league and you can check it on our YouTube channel. Click here.

With his win against the player from Pakistan, it is almost certain that he will go through as the highest-ranked reserve player even if Sathiyan wins later today.