Parupalli Kashyap 🇮🇳 1st male Indian Badminton Player in an Olympic 1/4-Final | Athlete Highlights

Parupalli Kashyap created history at the 2012 Olympic Games in London when he became India's first male player to reach the quarter-finals of the men's singles Badminton event. Kashyap won all of his matches at the group stage, surprising the world with his defeat of Vietnam's Nguyen Tien Minh. In the Pre-quarters he knocked out Sri Lanka's Niluka Karunaratne by 21–16, 15–21, 21–14. It was not until the Quarterfinals when Kashyap's incredible Olympic tournament came to an end after his loss to top seed Lee Chong Wei in straight sets.