Paris Olympics 2024 Day 9 Highlights: India advances to hockey semi-finals defeating Great Britain; Lakshya Sen loses to Axelsen in badminton
Lakshya will now play for the bronze medal against Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia on Monday.
Paris Olympics 2024
CHENNAI: India beat Great Britain 4-2 in penalty shoot-out to enter the semifinals of the men's hockey at the Paris Olympics, having played with only 10 players for more than 40 minutes on Sunday.
Lakshya Sen lost to the Danish player Victor Axlesen in two straight sets in the badminton singles semi-finals. At one point it looked like Lakshya would equalise by winning the second set after leading 7-0. But the defending champ was unstoppable and qualified for the final.
Lakshya will now play for the bronze medal against Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia on Monday.
Another upset for India in boxing as Lovlina Borgohain lost in the quarter-final to top seed Li Qian of China 1:4.
India’s Jeswin Aldrin failed to qualify to the Men’s long jump finals after only registering one successful jump of 7.61m which was not enough to make the cut. He ended up in 13th place.
Novak Djokovic has won everything that Tennis has to offer
10 X Australian Open
3 X Roland Garros
7 X Wimbledon
7X US Open
7X ATP Finals
8X Year End No 1
1X Davis Cup
2X Career Golden Masters
1X Olympic gold
Also, 428 at no 1 (which is the most ever)
Both Anish Bhanwala and Vijayveer Sidhu have failed to qualify for the 25m air pistol rapid final event
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Men's ILCA dinghy
Vishnu Saravanan finishes at 14th position at the end of the seventh race.
Top 10 racers at the end of 10 races will qualify for medal contention round
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Vishnu Saravanan 10 34 20 19 21 12 7
Total Points - 124; Net points - 94
India's Lakshya Sen will be facing Malaysia's Lee Zii Jia in the bronze medal match.
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LAKSHYA 14 - 21 ALEXSEN
That's it. Lakshya Sen loses to the Danish player Victor Axelsen in two straight sets in the badminton singles semi-finals. At one point it looked like Lakshya would equalise by winning the in second set after leading 7-0. But the defending champ was unstoppable and qualifies for the final. Lakshya will now play for bronze medal
Danish player is breaking Lakshya's confidence throughout the game
LAKSHYA 14 - 19 AXELSEN
Danish player not allowing Sen to lead that easy and giving a strong comeback in the game