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 2:24 PM GMT
The second games looks opposite, Letshanaa seems to have given up. In the first game, the Malaysian was dictating the pace, but its different story so far in the second game. Sindhu leads 7-2.
- 27 Aug 2025 2:22 PM GMT
Game 2 in progress! Sindhu 4-0 in lead
Letshanaa will have to forget what happened in Game 1 and reset her focus. She cannot afford to have unforced errors at this stage. The match is far from over. Sindhu will have to keep the Malaysian in check. Sindhu leads 4-0.
- 27 Aug 2025 2:19 PM GMT
Sindhu 21-19 in Game 1 lasted 22 minutes.
What a turnaround. She was on the verge of losing the first game.
- 27 Aug 2025 2:15 PM GMT
Sindhu on a roll!
Indian picks up 6 points in a row. Back in the game with 18-all.
- 27 Aug 2025 2:07 PM GMT
PV Sindhu now in action!!
PV Sindhu trails 10-12 in game 1 against Malaysia's Letshanaa.
- 27 Aug 2025 9:24 AM GMT
Up next is PV Sindu, at 5.30pm IST
PV Sindhu (WR 15) will be up against the Malaysian Karupathevan Letshanaa (WR 40).
