Lakshya Sen in motion© X (Twitter)
Jakarta:
Star Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen entered the lads’s singles second spherical of the Indonesia Open Tremendous 1000 event with a straight-game win over Japan’s Kanta Tsuneyama in Jakarta on Tuesday. Sen took simply 40 minutes to get the higher of Tsuneyama 21-12 21-17 in a gap spherical conflict. Sen, who sneaked into the Olympic qualification with back-to-back semifinal finishes at French Open and All England Championships, will subsequent be up towards the winner of the match between seventh seed Anthony Sinisuka Ginting of Indonesia and Japan’s Kenta Nishimoto.
Nevertheless, it was curtains for Kiran George from the lads’s singles occasion, however not earlier than giving a troublesome battle to Hong Yang Weng of China 21-11 10-21 20-22.
The Indian combined doubles pair of B Sumeeth Reddy and Sikki Reddy needed to battle onerous earlier than prevailing 18-21 21-16 21-17 over the American pair of Vinson Chiu and Jennie Gai within the opening spherical.
However a herculean process awaits the Indian pair as it’ll tackle the winner of the match between prime seeds Si Wei Zheng and Ya Qiong Huang of China and Indonesian mixture of Rehan Naufal Kusharjanto and Lisa Ayu Kusumawati within the subsequent spherical.
Later within the day, the Indian ladies’s doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand will likely be up towards Chinese language Taipei’s Yu-Pei Cheng and Yu Hsing Solar, whereas former world no.1 HS Prannoy will lock horns towards Priyanshu Rajawat in an all-Indian males’s singles opening spherical contest.
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