BWF World Championship 2025: Great Day For Indian Shuttlers

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The star Indian shuttlers HS Prannoy and PV Sindhu made a winning start to the BWF World Championship tournament with comphrensive wins played at Paris on 26th August 2025.

PV Sindhu survived a scare before winning her match against Bulgarian K Nalbantova in straight games. Nalbantova started off brightly putting Sindhu under pressure with smashes. At the mid-game break, Bulgarian had a 11-7 lead. After the break, Sindhu showed great resistance taking 7 points in succession. The match ebbed and flowed with Nalbantova missing easy chances to kill the game. Sindhu held onto her nerves to win the first game 23-21.

Sindhu proved too strong for Nalbantova initially with 5-1 lead before her opponent fought back strongly reducing the gap at 5-6. Sindhu never looked back winning points and won the second game comfortably by 21-6. She will face Karupathevan of Malaysia.

HS Prannoy eased past through J Oldorff of Finland in two straight games with scoreline of 21-18, 21-15. Prannoy struggled initially but found his rhythm putting his opponent under pressure taking a 11-8 lead at the break. After the break, both of them engaged in long rallies as the match levelled with 16-16. Prannoy looked sharp with smashes to win the first game 21-18.

The second game saw Prannoy looking in complete control making his opponent run and did not allow chances. At the mid-game break, the Indian had 11-8 lead. After the break, it was one-way traffic as he won with scoreline of 21-15 to move into second round. He will face the winner of Anders Anderson versus J Matias.

Rohan Kapoor & Shivani Gadde won their first-round match against WC Ng and IC Leong of Macau in three games. It was a closely fought affair before WC Ng and Leong won it by 21-18.

Rohan and Shivani then fight to win the next two games by 21-16, 21-18 to move into the second round.

Yesterday it was a tough outing as Lakshya Sen lost in his first-round match against top seeded Shi Y Q, Panda sisters, P Konjenbgam & S Mishra, Rethinasabapthi and Amsakarunan lost in the first-round matches.

Results of Indian Shuttlers in First Round Matches.

1.      PV Sindhu defeated K Nalbantova (Women’s Singles)- 23-21, 21-6

2.      HS Prannoy defeated J Oldorff (Men’s Singles)- 21-18, 21-15

3.      Rohan Kapoor/Shivani Gadde defeated WC Ng and IC Leong (Mixed Doubles)- 18-21, 21-16, 21-18.

 


 






PV Sindhu enter into the second round of BWF World Championship 2025. 

 

 

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