However, India need to play out of their skin once again to get past the doughty and physically intimidating Germany in order to fight for the men’s hockey gold for the first time since the boycott-hit 1980 Moscow Games
The top-ranked player made 54 unforced errors and failed to produce a break point during the 22-year-old's incredible performance at the Australian Open in 2024.
In the previous matches, India 4-2 victory against Korea, suffered a 1-4 defeat to Spain, and bounced back with a commanding 10-1 win over Canada, ly securing a second-place finish in Pool C.
Vaishnavi will now go up against Rashmikaa S Bhamidipaty as the Telangana player beat Sai Samhitha C 6-0, 6-1 in the quarter-finals.
World no 17 Sindhu, and fifth seed in the tournament, lost in straight games to world No. 12 Beiwen Zhang 12-21-17-21 .
India overwhelmed Chinese Taipei 11-0 to storm into the semi-finals of Women’s Junior Hockey Asia Cup in Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture, Japan on Thursday.
India drubbed lowly ranked Thailand 17-0 to move into the semi-finals of the Junior Asia Cup Hockey in in Salalah, Oman.
Defending champions Hyderabad FC will go head-to-head with ATK Mohun Bagan in the first leg of the second semi-final of the Indian Super League (ISL) 2022-23 season at the GMC Balayogi Athletic Stadium, in Hyderabad on Thursday.
Saturday promises a couple of crucial games from the perspective of the semi-finals of the Cricket World Cup.
For Pakistan to qualify they need to achieve a feat which, leave aside World Cup cricket, has never been achieved in the history of ODI cricket.
