26 July,2024 07:32 AM IST | New Delhi | IANS
Prakash Padukone. Pic/Atul Kamble
Badminton legend and ace shuttler PV Sindhu's mentor, Prakash Padukone believes that India have a strong chance of bagging three medals in badminton in the Paris Olympics including a hat-trick of medals for Sindhu.
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India have sent a seven-member badminton squad including the high-flying men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty and double Olympic medallist Sindhu.
Padukone picked Rankireddy and Shetty in the men's doubles, Sindhu in women's singles and Lakshya Sen and HS Prannoy in men's singles as possible medal contenders. "We have a chance in all three events: men's singles, women's singles and men's doubles," he told Jio Cinema.
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