Dan Bethell is just not getting complacent after sealing a spot within the semi-finals of the lads’s singles at Paris 2024.
The 28-year-old is at the moment undefeated in Paris, having received all three of his group matches within the males’s SL3 singles, and is now only one win away from a second Paralympic medal.
The Brit received ParalympicsGB’s very first-ever badminton medal with silver in Tokyo and stormed by way of his final group recreation in Paris with a scientific 21-5 21-5 victory over Oleksandr Chyrkov from Ukraine to place himself in competition for extra historical past.
And Bethell, who has dropped simply 30 factors throughout his three convincing victories to date, believes he’s enjoying one of the best badminton he ever has.
“It’s simply an honour to be on the Paralympics so to get to the semi-finals and to be inside a shot of a medal once more is incredible,” he mentioned.
“However I can’t get complacent right here, the job is to not simply get to the semi-final. I would like that gold medal so it’s all about going again, sticking to my plans and recovering now.
“I really feel like I’m enjoying a number of the finest badminton of my profession and getting there on the proper time.
“I’m loving it greater than something, enjoying in entrance of the gang is superb and it’s a privilege to be on the market and doing that.”
Bethell, who’s the present world quantity two, has been undefeated for almost all of the previous 12 months, solely falling in his World Championship ultimate in opposition to the person who additionally beat him to gold at Tokyo 2020, India’s Pramod Bhagat.
However with Pramod not contending at Paris and three emphatic victories to his title at La Chapelle Enviornment, Bethell can be hoping that that is the prospect for him to lastly clinch at long-awaited gold and make his Paralympic goals come true.
“I really feel actually good, I simply wished to go on the market within the final group recreation at getting going trying ahead to the semi-finals,” he mentioned.
“It’s the identical as the opposite two matches, I wished to be stable and stick with my recreation plan and I’m actually proud of that end result and to get by way of within the method I did.”
Bethell performs Thailand’s Mongkhon Bunsun within the semi-finals on Sunday at 3.40pm (BST).