Badminton
BWF World C’ships 2025: PV Sindhu and Satwik-Chirag advance - HIGHLIGHTS
R32 action brought good results for Indian in the women's singles and men's doubles.
PV Sindhu (left) and Satwik-Chirag in action at the round of 16 of the 2025 BWF World Championships 2025. (Photo credit: AFP)
After posting victories in their respectively round-one fixtures, PV Sindhu and HS Prannoy stepped out for their R32 games on Wednesday at the BWF World Championships 2025 at Paris.
Sindhu was up against Malaysia's Karupathevan Letshanaa (WR40) and despite an early wobble, she recovered well to wrap up the fixture in straight games.
Additionally, there was doubles action for India as well on Wednesday.
The mixed doubles pair of Dhruv-Tanisha progressed in their R32 outing after easing past Ireland's Joshua Magee and Moya Ryan (WR80).
Elsewhere, the star Indian men's doubles pair of Satwik-Chirag (seeded 9th) overcome a late hiccup in the first game before steamrolling the Chinese Taipei pair of Liu-Yang (WR23).
Meanwhile, it was curtains for Rohan-Ruthvika who went down in straight games to 4th seeded Malaysian pair of Chen-Ton in the mixed doubles event.
Catch all the highlights as it happened...
Live Updates
- 27 Aug 2025 3:05 PM GMT
Game #1 | Satwik-Chirag lead 19-16
Satwik draws a error on the return of serve.
Chirag follows it up with a finish at the net.
- 27 Aug 2025 3:03 PM GMT
Game #1 | Satwik-Chirag lead 16-14
Chirag does well at the net to guide the shuttle into a vacant area to draw the error.
- 27 Aug 2025 3:02 PM GMT
Game #1 | Satwik-Chirag lead 15-13
Lightning fast reflexes from the Taipei pair...every smash from Satwik is coming right back into play.
- 27 Aug 2025 3:01 PM GMT
Game #1 | Satwik-Chirag lead 14-12
It's been a game of quick exchanges so far...
- 27 Aug 2025 2:59 PM GMT
It’s a tight contest as SatChi edge ahead 11-10 at the mid-game interval in Game 1.
