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India has suffered a major setback in the Paris Olympics 2024. A veteran Indian player has suffered a major setback after winning the first round match. This victory of the Indian player has been declared invalid. This is according to the rules of the Badminton World Federation. Lakshya Sen will have to play the group round match again.
Lakshya Sen's match voided
India's Lakshya Sen defeated Kevin Cordon of Guatemala in the first round of badminton men's singles on Sunday. But there is a bad news for him. Lakshya Sen defeated Kevin Cordon, who is now out of Paris Olympics 2024 due to an elbow injury and the result of this match has been removed from the Olympics.
The Badminton World Federation said, “As per BWF's competition rules for the group stage, Group L matches were played by including cordon. Therefore, the results of all cordon-related matches played or to be played in Group L will now be considered void.” And the match has been declared cancelled and Lakshya Sen will now have to play again to proceed. Talking about the match between Lakshya and Kevin Cordon, the match lasted for about 42 minutes, in which Lakshya defeated Kevin 21-8, 22-20.
When is Lakshya's next match?
It is really bad news for Lakshya Sen to have his match invalidated in a big event like the Olympics. He lost even after winning the first match. Lakshya's next match in the group stage is against Julian Karagi of Belgium. After this, he will play against Jonathan Christie of Indonesia. Lakshya will be the only player to play three matches in this group. In such a situation, Lakshya Sen will have to win both his matches to move forward.