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Star Indian shuttler, Lakshya Sen’s opening win in Group L match against Guatemala’s Kevin Cordon at the Paris Olympics 2024 has been officially “deleted” after the Guatemalan withdrew from the Games on Sunday, July 28. On Saturday, July 27, Lakshya Sen got the better of Kevin Cordon in straight games 21-8, 22-20, to take a big first step towards making the knockout stage of the men’s singles event in Paris.
“Guatemalan men’s singles player Kevin Cordon has withdrawn from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games Badminton Competition due to a left elbow injury,” Badminton World Federation (BWF) said in an update. “His remaining Group L matches against Indonesia’s Jonatan Christie (Court 2, 2pm local time, 29 July 2024) and Julien Carraggi of Belgium 9Court 3, ‘Not Before’ 9.20am local time, 31 July 2024) will not be played. Matches on these courts in each respective session have been rescheduled,” it further read.
With this Lakshya remains the only player to play only one match in Group L, while the other two including Jonatan Christie and Julien Carraggi have played two matches each. After this big move, Sen will next be seen in action on Monday, July 29 against Carraggi.
Satwik-Chirag also on a backfoot after German pair withdraw from Paris Olympics
On Monday, July 29, a similar situation came forward after Germany pair withdrew from the 2024 Paris Olympics. Just minutes ahead of the match, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) confirmed that Mark Lamsfuss has withdrawn from the Games with a knee injury.
“The results of all matches played, or yet to be played, involving Group C are now considered null and void,” the BWF’s statement said.
