Indian badminton players participating in the 2024 Olympics in Paris
The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics is scheduled for July 26 near the Seine River. However, a few sports events will start earlier, and badminton tournaments will begin on July 27. Seven of the 117-person Indian team will compete in badminton at the Summer Games on behalf of the country; PV Sindhu is the only medallist.
Actually, Sindhu has two medals from the Olympics: a bronze in 2020 Tokyo and a silver in Rio in 2016. This time around, she’ll be going for her third medal and aiming to use all of her expertise to defeat some of the world’s top players. Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponappa will compete in the women’s doubles badminton category, making her the sole female athlete representing India.
Men’s singles competitors HS Prannoy and Lakshya Sen will take the court, while men’s doubles competitors Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, ranked third, will compete. The third-ranked team in the world, Satwik-Chirag, is full of expectations and aspires to bring home a medal for the nation.
Who are the badminton players from India competing in the Olympics in Paris?
Group C’s opponents for Satwik and Chirag are the sixth-ranked players in the world, Muhammad Rian Ardianto and Fajar Alfian of Indonesia; Mark Lamsfuss and Marvin Seidel of Germany; and Lucas Corvee and Ronan Labar of France.
PV Sindhu and Kristin Kuuba (Estonia) and Fathimath Nabaaha Abdul Razzaq (Maldives) have been assigned to group M for the group stage.
In the group stage, Tanish Crasto and Ashwini Ponappa will face off against Setyana Mapasa-Angela Wu (Australia), Kim So Yeong-Kong Hee Yong (South Korea), and Nami Matstuyama-Chiharu Shida (Japan).
In the Men’s Singles, Lakshya Sen will face challenges from Jonatan Christie (Indonesia), Kevin Cordon (Guatemala), and Julien Carraggi (Belgium) in Group L, while HS Prannoy will face Le Duc Phat (Vietnam), and Fabian Roth (Germany) in Group K.