{"id":107891,"date":"2024-08-04T13:41:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T13:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/04\/when-is-lakshya-sens-bronze-medal-match-and-who-will-be-his-opponent-at-paris-games\/"},"modified":"2024-08-04T13:41:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T13:41:39","slug":"when-is-lakshya-sens-bronze-medal-match-and-who-will-be-his-opponent-at-paris-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/04\/when-is-lakshya-sens-bronze-medal-match-and-who-will-be-his-opponent-at-paris-games\/","title":{"rendered":"When is Lakshya Sen&#8217;s bronze medal match and who will be his opponent at Paris Games?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/resize.indiatvnews.com\/en\/centered\/newbucket\/1200_675\/2024\/08\/india-13-1722772265.jpg?fit=1200,675&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"When is Lakshya Sen&#8217;s bronze medal match and who will be his opponent at Paris Games?\" title=\"When is Lakshya Sen&#8217;s bronze medal match and who will be his opponent at Paris Games?\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"atimgbign\" id=\"story-featured-image\" style=\"display: inline-block;\">\n<figure class=\"artbigimg row\"><figcaption><span class=\"author\">Image Source : GETTY<\/span> Lakshya Sen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"artconfp\">Indian ace shuttler Lakshya Sen went down fighting against defending Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen in the semifinal of the men&#8217;s singles at the Paris Games on Sunday, August 4. Lakshya, who was looking to become the second-ever Indian shuttler to reach a final at the Games, went down in straight games 20-22, 14-21 in a 54-minute contest.  <!-- \/8323530\/ITv_Desktop_VDO_1X1 -->\n  <\/p>\n<p>Lakshya was already the first Indian man to play a semifinal of a badminton event in the Olympic Games and was looking to be second after PV Sindhu to enter into a final. But his dream run was halted by the tall defending champion Axelsen. But Lakshya is still in contention for a medal as he will play in a bronze playoff.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Lakshya to face Lee Zii Jia\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Lakshya Sen will now be facing Malaysia&#8217;s Lee Zii Jia for the bronze medal match. Lee went down to the 2023 World Champion Kunlavut Vitidsarn in the other semifinal 14-21, 15-21.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Lakshya had a 1-7 head-to-head against Axelsen ahead of their semifinal, he has a much more favourable face-off against Lee. The Indian enjoys a 4-1 lead over the Malaysian and would fancy his chances of a historic bronze.<\/p>\n<p>The bronze medal match is scheduled to take place on August 5. As per the Paris Olympics official website, the medal matches will begin at 6:00 PM IST with Lakshya&#8217;s game against Lee to be played first. The Gold medal match will begin after 7:10 PM IST, as per the website schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Coming back to the Lakshya vs Axelsen semifinal, the Indian shuttler was leading the first game 17-12 and even had three game points to his name at 20-17. But the Dane stormed back, saving all three points to put it 20-20 before converting the next two to win the opening game 22-20.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Axelsen was slow off the blocks in the second game and Lakshya had a comprehensive 7-0 lead in his must-win game but the defending champion yet again came from behind to first close the lead and then take his own. He had six match points at 20-14 and didn&#8217;t need any further as he sealed the game and the match to make his way into the finals.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async>\nfunction loadFacebookScript(){\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '529056027274737');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n}\nwindow.addEventListener('load', (event) => {\n\tsetTimeout(function(){\n        loadFacebookScript();\n\t}, 5000);\n});\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/sports\/other\/when-is-lakshya-sens-bronze-medal-match-and-who-will-be-his-opponent-at-paris-games-2024-08-04-945221\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Source : GETTY Lakshya Sen. Indian ace shuttler Lakshya Sen went down fighting against defending Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen in the semifinal of the men&#8217;s singles at the Paris Games on Sunday, August 4. Lakshya, who was looking to become the second-ever Indian shuttler to reach a final at the Games, went down in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/resize.indiatvnews.com\/en\/centered\/newbucket\/1200_675\/2024\/08\/india-13-1722772265.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[605],"tags":[8183,3280,1195,1190,89244,89246,87713,89247,88791,1903,34708,7735,4987,34222,16299,89245,89248],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107893,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107891\/revisions\/107893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}