Jakarta [Indonesia], June 2 (ANI): Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen was knocked out within the first spherical of the Indonesia Open on Tuesday, whereas two-time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu marched into the second spherical after a tough conflict.
Lakshya, ranked tenth within the males’s singles competitors, couldn’t match the tempo of a youthful opponent, Indonesia’s Alwi Farhan, shedding 21-19, 21-16 in 48 minutes, as per Olympics.com.
The 24-year-old recovered from 7-3 deficit within the first recreation and edged previous the Indonesian 19-18 earlier than the 21-year-old peeled off three straight factors to take the opener. The second recreation was a intently fought battle, with Farhan main at 17-16 and the Indonesian closing out the match with 4 straight factors.
This was Lakshya’s second loss to Farhan in as many conferences. Having met within the semifinals of the Macau Open final yr, Lakshya misplaced in straight video games.
Sindhu, who made a return to high 10 within the girls’s singles competitors for the primary time since October 2023 this week, defeated Thailand’s world No. 19 Busanan Ongbamrungphan 25-23, 21-16 in straight video games.
With this win, Sindhu continues her dominant report over Busanan, enhancing it to 21-1, however was pushed within the opening recreation actually exhausting earlier than largely dominating the second to win the match in 51 minutes.
The Indian ace shuttler got here to Jakarta after a positive quarterfinal run within the Singapore Open final week, the place a standout efficiency included a win over world quantity six Putri Kusuma Wardani of Indonesia within the first spherical.
But with a loss to Paris Olympics 2024 bronze champion An-Se-young, her marketing campaign got here to an finish within the quarters. She might face the Olympic champion as soon as once more within the second spherical if she beats Turkiye’s unseeded Neslihan Arin in her opener.
Former world primary Kidambi Srikanth confronted a gap spherical loss in straight video games to higher-ranked Yushi Tanaka of Japan by 21-19, 21-15. Kidambi’s poor run this yr has continued. He is but to make previous spherical two in any BWF World Tour match this season.
In the boys’s doubles competitors, the Indian pair of Hariharan Amsakarunan and MR Arjun shocked Malaysia’s Tan Wee Kiong, Rio 2016 Olympics silver medalist and Mohammed Azriyn Ayub within the opening spherical. The world quantity 30 duo outclassed their Twenty fourth-ranked opposition by 21-18, 21-10 to progress to the pre-quarterfinals.
Earlier within the day, within the girls’s competitors, Malvika Bansod bowed out after a 21-12, 21-10 defeat to Thailand’s seventh seed Pornpawee Chochuwong. In the ladies’s double competitors, Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand additionally bowed out after 21-12, 21-10 defeat to Thailand gamers.
In the blended doubles, Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto, who made it to the semi-finals in Singapore final week, succumbed to Malaysia’s reigning world champions Chen Tang Jie and Toh Ee Wei 21-11, 21-10. (ANI)