Rajawat, a part of India's historic Thomas Cup winning team back in 2022, succumbed to Japan's Takuma Obayashi 9-21, 21-16, 9-21. On the other hand, Kiran lost to Chinese Taipei's Su Li Yang 16-21, 16-21 in two straight games, as per Olympics.com.
The highest-ranked Indian men's singles player at number 13, HS Prannoy, is set to make his Olympic debut in Paris 2024 and is hopeful of bringing a medal back to the nation.
akshya Sen continued his domination of Asian Games gold medalist Li Shi Feng and the rest of the Indian squad pushed overwhelming favourites and hosts China in all the matches but ended up on the wrong side of the 1-3 score line in the quarterfinals of the BWF Thomas and Uber Cup 2024 in Che
The young Indian women's team, showed enough promise and prowess for the future as they finished their campaign against the former champions, Japan 0-3 despite a splendid effort by the singles players at the BWF Uber Cup 2024 campaign in Chengdu at the quarterfinal stage on Thursday.
With the quarterfinal spot already assured, the Indian team took on multiple-time champions Indonesia in the last group clash, looking to find the right balance ahead of the knock-out stage.
The Indian contingent with an average age of below 25 was always going to be the underdogs against an outfit that had all the world's top-10 ranked players. And though the team lost 0-5 and finished second in the group, they would take a lot of positives ahead of their quarterfinals
The Indian women's team assured themselves of a quarterfinals spot in the BWF Thomas and Uber Cup 2024 with a facile 4-1 win over Singapore in their Group A clash
Considered the 'World Cup' of badminton, this competition will not directly impact the forthcoming Olympics in Paris, but it would be interesting to see how India's top badminton players perform under duress.
Back in 2022, India stunned the world by defeating 14-time champions Indonesia, the most successful team of the tournament, in the finals of the Thomas Cup. India is grouped in Group C and will also play England (April 29) and Indonesia (May 1).