Badminton
Tokyo Olympics: Badminton LIVE Day 1, July 24 - Satwik-Chirag start with a massive win, Sai loses - Updates, scores, results, blog
Satwik-Chirag played an inspired game to win their debut match against third seeds while Sai Praneeth suffered a shock loss to lower-ranked player.
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will debut at the Tokyo Olympics (Source: BWF website)
Welcome to The Bridge's LIVE blog for Badminton on Day 1 of the Tokyo Olympics.
It's set to be an exciting day at the Musashino Forest Sports Plaza as the badminton action takes off at the Tokyo Olympics, finally. For the Indians, it is going to be an action-packed morning with the World No. 10 dynamic doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty aspiring to make their mark against formidable World No. 3 pair of Lee Yang/Wang Chi-Lin, in their Group A Play Stage match. Other than this young Indian pair, there will also be the thirteenth seeded B. Sai Praneeth, in the men's singles event as he will square off against Misha Zilberman of Israel, who is ranked as the World No. 47 in his Group D Play Stage opener match.
Order of Play:
Men's Doubles: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty [9] v Lee Yang/Wang Chi-Lin [3]
Men's Singles: Sai Praneeth [13] v Misha Zilberman
Follow all our LIVE updates here:
Live Updates
- 24 July 2021 6:21 AM GMT
Satwik Chirag puts pressure!
What a nail-biter this is turning out to be! Satwik-Chirag stays in hot pursuit, comes up 18-19! Good Lord!
- 24 July 2021 6:20 AM GMT
Chinese Taipei snatches back the lead - they are 2 points away from clinching the match!
- 24 July 2021 6:19 AM GMT
Satwik's powerful smash brings back the service to the Indians as they are just 2 points behind the Chinese Taipei pair at 16-18.
- 24 July 2021 6:18 AM GMT
Full power in the final game!
Back to service for Satwik-Chirag. They lag behind at 15-17.
What a high octane clash this is!
- 24 July 2021 6:17 AM GMT
The Indians are keeping a close tab on the Chinese Taipei pair as they have won back service.
However, they fail to hold on to it as Chinese Taipei leads 17-14. - 24 July 2021 6:14 AM GMT
Time to push things to the next gear, Satwik-Chirag
Things are getting quite noisy here at the Musashino Forest Sports Plaza as the Chinese Taipei pairs assume the lead here.
- 24 July 2021 6:13 AM GMT
A match of incredibly close margins!
Satwik-Chirag steals back service but Chinese Taipei breaks back to take a 13-11 lead.
- 24 July 2021 6:11 AM GMT
Satwik-Chirag to make a final dash for the match now
Once again, it is Chinese Taipei who takes the mini-game lead at 11-10.
However, things are VERY close in this final game - it could be anybody's day as all the players are simply fantastic here!
