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 5:24 AM GMT
Sai wins back the serve and is showing promise once again. But the Indian still lags behind the lower-ranked opponent at 11-15.
- 24 July 2021 5:22 AM GMT
MISHA ZILBERMAN IS ON FIRE! Sai Praneeth is so flustered and is losing colour - what is happening?
- 24 July 2021 5:21 AM GMT
Misha Zilberman with the massive lead!
Misha Zilberman is attacking like no other as he takes the mini-game lead in the second game at 7-11.
- 24 July 2021 5:20 AM GMT
Sai Praneeth is really struggling as he fails to hold on to the services he is winning.
- 24 July 2021 5:19 AM GMT
Is there no stopping Misha Zilberman today, who is playing a very inspired game today?
The Israel player leads at 8-6. - 24 July 2021 5:16 AM GMT
Zilberman is finding narrow edges and it leaves Sai Praneeth quite literally, surprised.
Zilberman gets the lead at 6-4 in the second game. - 24 July 2021 5:16 AM GMT
Sai Praneeth and Zilberman keep toe to toe in second game
The rallies are intense and powerful here as both players keep abreast of each other at 4 ALL.
- 24 July 2021 5:15 AM GMT
Zilberman struggles at nimble net play and Sai notices it and cashes in on the opportunity to level up 3 ALL in the second game of the match.
- 24 July 2021 5:14 AM GMT
The second game has begun!
Sai packs in a few winners here but Zilberman has the lead once more at 3-2.
