Commonwealth Games 2022 Badminton Highlights: Sindhu, Lakshya, Satwik-Sairaj assure medals; Srikanth loses in semifinal

There seems to be a sideways drift that Teh uses well to use and cut back Lakshya's lead to one point. It is anybody's match at the moment.

Ng manages to find some footing but Srikanth is a runaway train at the moment. Just a matter of time now before he takes a one-game lead now. 

Teh losing a bit of concentration and Lakshya runs away with it immediately. He has opened up a four-point lead at the interval of Game 3. 

Srikanth playing quite a different match from Lakshya's on Court 2. He has taken the game by the horns and has an 8-point lead at the interval of the 1st game.  

Well Srikanth has come out all guns blazing and Ng is struggling to keep pace. The Indian former world no.1 takes a 5-0 lead before the Malaysian finally winss his first point. 

Teh came out of the blocks flying and took a 4-2 lead but Lakshya has managed to take two consecutive points to level it up. Teh's smash down the line then goes wide off Lakshya's serve and the Indian finally takes the lead. 

Lakshya is facing a different opponent now. He recovered from the blip he suffered during that second game but the damage was done and he had just too big a point difference to close. 

PV Sindhu will be facing Canada's Michelle Li after she beat Kirsty Gilmour of Scotland 21-23, 23-21, 21-18 in quite an epic semifinal. This means that Kidambi Srikanth is set to take court next and he faces Malaysia's Ng Tze Yong.

Teh's shoe succumbs to the intensity of this second game and there is a small break in the proceedings as he gets a new one. This is some match now and Lakshya managed to come back to get his tally up to 12. The two players then exchanged points and Teh's lead has now reduced to three points. 

Lakshya was leading 8-5 at one point and since then, he has just won one point. The tables have clearly turned here and the Indian has to find a way to stop this run that the Singaporean is on. 

Six of the last seven points have gone to Jason Teh. He pays the price whenever he succumbs to his tendency to play a back hand from deep in the court but he has won some intense rallies against Lakshya. We do have a match in our hands folks!

Teh looks a different player in this second game. Choosing to play more dynamically than he did the last time, where he decided to go all power and Lakshya just defended and then attacked him to the ground. Teh took a 3-1 lead before Lakshya fought back and he currently has a one-point lead.

Jason Teh looks like he has lost the match already. Lakshya utterly dominant and wins that first game quite emphatically. This is nothing like the semifinal tie Sindhu had to go through, Lakshya has hardly broken a sweat. 

Teh trying to keep pace and is being helped by some errors from Lakshya but it is fair to say that the Indian is far ahead in this tie. Seems to be a more straightforward affair this time. 

No injury trouble for Lakshya, unlike Sindhu and he has taken the lead early on. Teh keeping pace with the Indian world championship silver medallist. There was a slight pause in the game after someone used their flash among the audience while Teh was serving. 

They are coming thick and fast. Sindhu has just exited the court and Lakshya Sen comes in to face Teh Jia Heng of Singapore. Kidambi Srikanth is also waiting for his match on Court 2 where Kristy Gilmour is playing quite an entertaining women's singles semi-final against Michelle Li. 

An emphatic body smash to finish the match and Sindhu is through to a second consecutive CWG final! Quite an extraordinary win this from the Indian former world champion. She is clearly managing an injury and yet almost managed to move like she is perfectly fine towards the end of that second game. What will be the aftermath of that, we will wait and see later but for now, it's kudos to Sindhu for this effort. She now has a chance to win a third consecutive CWG medal and her first gold at this event. 

Sindhu gets five match points, of which Yeo manages to take away two. Long rallies again and Yeo has gained out of making Sindhu move once again. 

It is Sindhu who moves Yeo around this time to come two points closer to a second consecutive final. 

Brilliantly worked rally from Yeo and she reduces the gap with Sindhu to two points. Once again, Sindhu looking rather helpless when Yeo has managed to dictate points but the Indian has managed to work past her injury. 

A sensational rally ends in Sindhu's favour to make it 10-9. She then took the final point before the interval with a smash well out of Yeo's reach. Sindhu starting to dictate the pace consistently now. 

The momentum is going back and forth in this match. Sindhu's run of points ends when she actually sends a service long, not something we see quite often from her. Yeo then wins the next point when the shuttle seems to almost crawl over the net. Sindhu had celebrated when she saw that the shuttle hit the net and didn't see it go past and so she was quite surprised that the point was awarded to her opponent. 

5 consecutive points for Sindhu with the last one won after quite a sensational rally. Sindhu seems determined to not let this go to a third game. 

Sindhu moving around much better now, despite the fact Yeo had won four consecutive points early. She breaks that run with a trademark body smash. Yeo then managed to defend a smash with a forward dive to the right of her court after which Sindhu came to the net and put it away at the other side to reduce the gap to 2 points. 

Once again, it is the errors that cost Yeo the game. She saves two game points by making Sindhu move around and the Indian clearly can't handle that today. These are worrying signs indeed, regardless of the outcome of this match. Sindhu takes the game after Yeo found the net.