Birmingham [United Kingdom], March 17 (ANI): Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen crashed out of the All England Open 2023 males’s singles occasion after shedding to Anders Antonsen of Denmark in straight video games on the Utilita Arena in Birmingham on Thursday.
Current World No. 19 Lakshya Sen, who had misplaced to Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen within the All England Open ultimate final 12 months, misplaced 21-13, 21-15 to world No. 18 Antonsen within the spherical of 16 of the BWF Super 1000 occasion.
The Indian badminton participant started the match on a constructive be aware however as soon as the 2 shuttlers have been tied at 11-11, two-time world championships medallist Anders Antonsen upped the ante to win 10 of the subsequent 12 factors and go 1-0 up.
Lakshya Sen, a world championships bronze medallist, mounted a comeback to steer Anders Antonsen by six factors on the second break. However, a sequence of consecutive factors noticed the Dane race forward and take the match in 52 minutes.
Earlier within the day, Commonwealth Games bronze medallists Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly defeated former world No. 1 Japanese pair of Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota 21-14, 24-22.
Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly, world No. 17 in girls’s doubles, knocked out world No. 9 pair of Yuki Fukushima-Sayaka Hirota in 50 minutes of their spherical of 16 match.
They will tackle the world No. 23 girls’s doubles pair of Liu Xuan Xuan and Li Wen Mei of China within the quarter-finals on Friday.
In males’s doubles, Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy misplaced to in-form Chinese shuttlers Liang Wei Keng and Wang Chang 21-10, 17-21, 19-21.
Men’s singles gamers HS Prannoy, ranked ninth, and former world No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth additionally misplaced of their spherical of 16 matches. HS Prannoy went all the way down to world No. 3 Indonesian shuttler Anthony Sinisuka Ginting 22-20, 15-21, 21-17. Kidambi Srikanth, world No. 22, confronted a 21-17, 21-15 defeat by the hands of world No. 6 Japanese shuttler Kodai Naraoka. (ANI)