Shuttler PV Sindhu Out Of Paris Olympics

Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu is out of the medal race in the Paris Olympics following a defeat at the hands of China’s He Bing Jiao 19-21, 14-21 in the women’s singles Round of 16 clash on Thursday.

Sindhu is the first Indian woman to bag two consecutive Olympic medals in Rio 2016 (silver) and Tokyo 2020 (bronze).

She was trailing from the beginning of the match with the Chinese shuttler, who lost the bronze medal match against Sindhu in the Tokyo Olympics.

Sindhu, the lone Indian in the women’s singles draw, joined H.S Prannoy and the men’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty to get ousted from the Paris Olympics on Thursday.

Now Lakshya Sen is the only Indian remaining in the fray in men’s singles. He will play Chinese Taipei’s 12th-seeded Chou Tien Chen in a quarterfinal clash.