Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Highlights: Prannoy to face Lakshya in round of 16; Lovlina, Nishant one win away from medal

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: The big things to look forward to tomorrow would first up be the round of 16 match between HS Prannoy and Lakshya Sen. Not often that you see an all-Indian knockout match in Olympic badminton, or any sport at the Games for that matter. That will be at 12 noon IST while Swapnil Kusale's men's 50m rifle 3 positions final gets underway at 1pm IST. At 1.30pm IST the Indian men's hockey team face reigning Olympic champions Belgium in what should be a humdinger of a match. At 2.30pm IST, Nikhat Zareen takes the ring in boxing women's 50kg round of 16. Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty's men's doubles quarterfinal is scheduled for 4.30pm IST while PV Sindhu plays her round of 16 match at 10pm IST. Enjoy all of that and a lot more and come for updates and scores and analysis right here. Ciao!

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: That's the end of Sreeja's campaign in women's singles table tennis. That also marks the end of the Indian challenge in singles table tennis overall. Sreeja kept up as much as she could, even being ahead for much of the first two games, but beating Sun Yingsha was always going to be a climb too far for her.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Sreeja got a little window of opportunity amid the fury of power from Sun. The Chinese races away in the final game.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Sreeja has done pretty well here but her defence is no match against the world no.1. One game away from the end of her road in women's singles.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Sreeja managed to get within a point of Sun. Then the Chinese takes one point back. She is now a point away from taking three game points.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Sreeja reels off a couple of points for herself and reduces the gap to two points. A little opening for the Indian maybe as she puts two backhands out of the Chinese's reach.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: This time, Sun races away to a big lead early on. Sun deploying her incredible power to good use and Sreeja looking bereft of answers at the moment.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Sun's done it again. She reels off seven consecutive points this time and wins the second game. A couple of hard, hard defeats for Sreeja to take here.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Well, she had four games points in the last game, now she has five. The Indian's forehand has been fruitful for her today.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Well Sreeja had got to four game points but then lost six points in a row and the Chinese world no.1 has taken the first game. Utterly stunning shots from Sun there to take the game.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Nishant maintains momentum despite Rodriguez pushing him into the ropes. He had got a few big punches in before that and the judges give him the 1st round. He got a 4-1 decision in his favour in the second round and then just about takes the third as well. A split 3-2 win for him.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Sreeja recorded quite a fantastic win earlier in the day to make it to the round of 16. Now she is up against it, facing World No.1 Sun Yingsha in the round of 16.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: All right, the referee is reeling out the rules to the two boxers, they tap gloves and go to their corners. Blue for Nishant, Red for Ecuadorian Rodrigues Tenorio.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Nishant Dev will be up against Ecuado's Jose Gabriel Rodriguez Tenorio in men's 71kg boxing. That will be right after the ongoing bout between Lewis Richardson of Great Britain and Vakhid Abbasov of Serbia.

Meanwhile Sreeja Akula will face World No.1 Sun Yingsha in women's singles round of 16 table tennis

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz's dream team men's doubles tennis journey is over. They have lost to America's Rajeev Ram and Austin Krajicek 2-6, 4-6 in the men's doubles quarterfinal.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: HS Prannoy is through to the round of 16 as the winner of Group K. He will now face Lakshya Sen in an all-Indian round of 16 match tomorrow. He gets to eight match points and by this point, Le looks completely out of his depth. Prannoy wins it at the net. Make no mistake, this has been a very good performance from Le.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: The World Championship silver medallist is racing away now. Le just about holds on by taking two points off but Prannoy is hurtling towards winning this group, and possibly setting up a round of 16 date with Lakshya Sen.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Le ends up taking the lead briefly at 8-7. Prannoy then reels off the next four points on the trot and leads 11-8 at the interval of Game 3.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Well Prannoy corrected the umpire's call to hand a point to Le and thus make the scoreline 6-5 in his favour. He wins the next point but Le wins the next two on the trot to draw level.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Le unsuccessfully challenges a wide call, and he takes that chance to sit and take a breather. Prannoy is cruising away now, and the Vietnamese arenot helping his case at all with unforced errors.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Prannoy rattles off the early points and then Le wrestles back serve with a jumping back court smash. He looks a little bereft of ideas though.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Normalcy restored one would say after Le took that first game against all expectations. Prannoy takes it to the net and prevails to convert the first match point that he got to.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Prannoy takes two quick points and moves closer to victory in the second game. He is in complete control.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Unforced errors galore for Le and that is working in Prannoy's favour. The Indian takes the 15th point by maneouvering Le everywhere.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Le fights back and comes to within a point of Prannoy at 8-7. Prannoy then takes it to the net and tests Le's patience a bit. Comes out on top and leads at the interval.