IMAGE: Lakshya Sen. Photograph: Kind courtesy BAI/Twitter
Lakshya Sen continued his wealthy kind within the Thailand Open 2023 as he ousted All England Champion Li Shi Feng in straight video games to enter the boys’s singles quarter-finals.
Sen took simply 49 minutes to clinch a dominant win over the fifth seed 21-17, 21-15. He was utterly accountable for his Round of 16 match towards 4th seed Li, as he grabbed his court docket overlaying space and hit bounce smashes at will to place unrelenting stress on the Chinese star.
In the quarter-finals, Lakshya will face Malaysian qualifier Leong Jun Hao.
Meanwhile, Kiran George continued his good kind as he defeated Malaysia Masters runner-up Hong Yang Weng within the spherical of 16, 21-11,21-19.
However, India suffered main upsets within the girls’s singles as Ashmita Chaliha and veteran Saina Nehwal suffered defeats of their respective matches whereas high seeds Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty bowed out within the males’s doubles Round 2.
Chaliha suffered a defeat towards Spain’s badminton star Carolina Marin 18-21, 13-21.
Rankireddy and Shetty have been knocked out by Indonesia’s Muhammad Shohibul Fikri and Bagas Maulana 26-24, 11-21, 17-21.
Saina misplaced to 3rd seed He Bing Jiao of China 11-21, 14-21.