Asked if the cancellation of the first match's result had any impact on him, Sen said, "I just took it as a practice match; now it is time for me to just focus on one match at a time. I will rest, recover and try to be at my best against Christie.
Lakshya Sen shrugged off the cancellation of his opening match win and defeated Julien Carraggi of Belgium in straight games
India's indigenously developed, micro-light pilot-less target aircraft 'Lakshya-1' was successfully test flown from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur in Odisha on Thursday.
Sen played four three-game matches last week at the French Open before engaging in two back-to-back long matches in the past couple of days but despite that he was able to maintain a high pace.
Check out how India's athletes fared on Day 5, Wednesday, July 31, 2024:
'The film has two looks because it spans two-and-half years. Most of the women that went to cover the war, 90 percent of them had shorter hair,' says Preity Zinta.
Don't do any strange things in preparation ahead of Olympics, Gopichand's advise to shuttlers
When the going gets tough for P V Sindhu, the star badminton player dives into her highly successful past to seek inspiration to keep going in her quest for more glory.
Top shuttlers Ashwini Ponnappa and Lakshya Sen are among 20-odd Indian players who have started training at the Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy (PPBA) in Bengaluru as the sport took its first step towards resumption after the COVID-19 hiatus. Confined to their homes for more than two months due to the nationwide lockdown to contain the health crisis, the shuttlers started training at PPBA after the Sports Authority of India (SAI) laid down rules for resumption of training late last month.
PV Sindhu stormed into the pre-quarterfinals of the Olympic Games' women's singles competition
Lakshya Chahar became the fourth Indian boxer to crash out in the opening round of the first World Olympic Boxing Qualifier.
Another impressive week ended with a creditable semifinal finish for star shuttler Lakshya Sen after he stumbled to a three-game loss against Indonesia's Jonatan Christie at the All England Championships in Birmingham on Saturday, prolonging India's long wait for the coveted trophy.
Quarterly earnings of corporates, trading activity of foreign investors and inflation data are the key factors that are expected to drive the momentum in the equity markets this week, analysts said.
Last Friday saw the release of India's 'most violent film ever', Kill.
A look at India's schedule at the Paris Olympics on Monday, July 29, 2024:
London 2012 Bronze medalist Saina Nehwal believes PV Sindhu can rediscover her winning form in time for the Paris Games
The Chirag-Satwik pair won the Thailand Open in May to reclaim the No.1 ranking but suffered loss of form and made a first-round exit from the Singapore Open last month.
'Our soldiers fought so bravely. It actually made me get up and start thinking about things I would never think of.'
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with the Indian contingent which returned from the Paris Olympics with six medals.
Kidambi Srikanth's opening round match ended in agony as he retired due to a knee injury after lagging 14-21, 3-11 against Japan's fifth seed Kodai Naraoka.
Check out how India's athletes fared on Day 6, Thursday, August 1, 2024:
An ultra-violent film about violence, Kill's greatest accomplishment isn't its death count alone but to challenge our perception of violence, observes Sukanya Verma.
Sindhu pulls out of Uber Cup
'The only violence I have had in any film of mine is a slap.' 'When Nikhil narrated the film to me, I was blown away.' 'I was literally screaming out of my chair.'
Satwik-Chirag suffer shock defeat in opening round of Singapore Open
Six medals from a 117-strong contingent is not ideal but India had its moments of joy, hope, frustration, and heartache.
A look at how India's athletes fared on Day 3, Monday, July 29, 2024:
Badminton is not as popular as cricket in India and therefore comparatively does not attract as many sponsors.
Check out how India's athletes fared on Day 10, Monday, August 5, 2024:
'I have funded myself for tournaments until Nov last year, after which I was sent with the Indian team for tournaments as I met the selection criteria to make the team. I was included as part of TOPS scheme only after qualifying for the Paris 2024 Games till the Olympic Games, that's it.'
Lakshya was flown as a support system to gauge the precision control of the short range missile.
Suryakumar Yadav will turn up for Mumbai in their Buchi Babu match against TNCA XI, aiming to get his Test career back on track.
A collection of stunning pictures from the Paris 2024 Games
