Satwik-Chirag won’t be seen in action on July 29 of Paris Olympics as German men’s doubles player Mark Lamsfuss pulls out with injury. After Lakshay Sen, India’s ace duo suffer a similar setback. With the German duo pulling out of the tournament, it is now do for die for Satwik-Chirag as they take on Indonesian pair of Alfian-Adrianto.
Alfian-Adrianto’s results have now been deleted after they faced Mark Lamsfuss and Marvin Seidel. But now since the German duo have pulled out of the tournament.
Mark Lamsfuss pull out of Paris Olympics
“German men’s doubles player Mark Lamsfuss has withdrawn from the Olympic Games Paris 2024 badminton competition due to a knee injury. Lamsfuss’ and teammate Marvin Seidel‘s remaining Group C matches against India’s Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty (Court 3, 8.30am local time, 29 July 2024) and Lucas Corvee/Ronan Labar of France (Court 1, ‘Not Before’ 2.50pm local time, 30 July 2024) will not be played,” read BWF’s statement.
Matches on these courts in each respective session have been rescheduled. As per BWF General Competition Regulations for group stage play, the results of all matches played, or yet to be played, involving in Group C are now considered deleted.
Since today’s match has been cancelled, it means the result will now be null and void. On the flip side, the French duo of Lucas Corvee and Ronan Labar has now seen their result of the previous game cancelled.
