At the Asian Para Games, Sheetal won three medals, which included a women's team silver, a mixed team gold, and gold in the women's singles compound open event.
Hooda defeated Aakarshi Kashyap by 15-21, 21-19, 21-18 in a hard-fought round of 32 match on Wednesday and could be facing former world champion Nozomi Okuhara of Japan on Thursday, as per Olympics.com.
Sinner, who has been in sensational form all week, was just too good for his Australian counterpart in the second singles match, needing just an hour and 21 minutes to cap what has been a perfect week for the 22-year-old.
India's star shuttles Lakshya Sen, Kidambi Srikanth and Priyanshu Rajawat suffered defeats in the men's singles round of 32 at the China Masters 2023 in Shenzhen on Wednesday.
India's ace shuttler Pramod Bhagat marked his dominance in the ongoing 4th Asian Para Games with a gold medal in the badminton men's singles SL 3 event on Friday.
All the seeded players advanced to the men's singles pre-quarterfinals of the ITF Davangere Open Men's World Tennis Tour, raising expectations of an exciting contest ahead in the USD 15,000 event.
India paddler Bhavina Patel settled for a bronze medal after suffering a defeat in the women's singles - Class 4 semifinals in the ongoing 4th Asian Para Games on Wednesday.
Maharashtra's Harsheel Dani kept his nerves at the business end of the decider to upset top seed Kiran George of Kerala while the experienced Sourabh Verma of Madhya Pradesh gave third seed Karthikey Gulshan Kumar of Delhi a tactical lesson is game plan to advance to the badminton men's sing
Unnati Hooda won her second BWF Super 100 World Tour title. She became the youngest Indian to win a BWF title last year at 14 years of age, beating 21-year-old Smit Toshniwal in the final. In that tournament also, she defeated Farooqui in the quarterfinals.