Para-badminton gamers from India are sustaining their kind within the present Paralympics by reaching the lads’s singles SL4 and SL3 semi-finals. Suhas Yathiraj, a 2007 batch IAS officer and Nitesh Kumar got here out all weapons blazing and gained their matches in model
Suhas Yathiraj who clinched a silver medal in Tokyo Paralympics 2020 continued his good run by beating Korea’s Shin Kyung Hwan 26-24, 21-14 within the second match. This win positioned him on the apex of the Group A within the SL4 class and paved the way in which for a semifinals’ spot. Yathiraj has carried out exceptionally nicely, particularly for somebody who’s a civil servant and on the similar time an expert athlete.
Nitesh Kumar, a 29-year-old IIT Mandi graduate, additionally got here out all weapons blazing and outplayed China’s Yang Jianyuan 21-5, 21-11. This victory ensured his second place within the four-man Group A of the SL3 class that made him proceed to the semi-finals. Kumar’s story of how he acquired to the Paralympics is kind of inspiring, provided that he suffered from everlasting leg damage in an accident in 2009.
The class wherein Suhas Yathiraj participates is SL4, which is for the athletes with some impairment within the decrease limbs and minor downside in stability whereas strolling or operating. On the opposite hand, the SL3 class wherein Nitesh Kumar and Manoj Sarkar compete is for the gamers with extra extreme decrease limb impairment and the sport have to be performed on the half dimension court docket.
In the blended doubles SL3-SU5 class, Nitesh Kumar and Thulasimathi Murugesan have been crushed by Indonesian pair Ramdani Hikmat and Oktila Leani Ratri 15-21, 8-21 within the second group stage match. Likewise, Suhas Yathiraj and Palak Kohli have been defeated by France’s Lucas Mazur and Faustine Noel 15-21, 9-21 within the second match of Group A.
The Indian para-badminton workforce continues to have excessive hopes, with Suhas Yathiraj and Nitesh Kumar able to shine within the subsequent semifinals.
