This will likely be HS Prannoy’s first look at any Olympics, after lacking out the final 3 times.
The 2023 World Championships bronze medalist, India’s HS Prannoy has all however booked his place within the Paris Olympics, after Kidambi Srikanth exited from the Paris Olympic Qualification race, as per the rankings. After his first spherical ouster from the All England Championships to Viktor Axelsen, Prannoy booked his berth.
This, regardless of Prannoy shedding his first spherical match as nicely. It’s because, most of two gamers can qualify from a rustic, and must be in top-16 of the Olympic Qualification rankings. With that second participant for India being Lakshya Sen, who’s on the fifteenth spot at present, Prannoy is thru, and Srikanth is out.
In the meantime, Prannoy is within the eighth spot with 74,897 factors, whereas Lakshya has 59,221 factors, which may go up after the All England Championships. Srikanth has 47,943 factors and is on twenty sixth place.
Maiden Olympics for Prannoy
After lacking out on 2012, 2016, and 2020 Olympics, Prannoy would take part in his maiden Olympics. He had a stop-start profession marred by varied accidents. However he surprised every one in 2023 together with his superlative performances, the place he received the Malaysia Masters 500, in addition to a World Championships medal, by beating WR-1 Axelsen.
Alternatively, PV Sindhu, and the lads’s doubles pair of Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty are all however by way of to go to Paris 2024.
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