Tokyo [Japan], July 17 (ANI): Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen and the boys’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty crashed out of the continuing Japan Open 2025 badminton event after shedding their pre-quarterfinal encounters on Thursday.
Anupama Upadhyaya’s run within the girls’s singles additionally ended within the spherical of 16, as per Olympics.com.
Paris 2024 Olympic semi-finalist Lakshya Sen, 18th within the badminton rankings, misplaced 21-19, 21-11 to native favorite and world No. 8 Kodai Naraoka.
The Indian badminton participant pushed Naraoka within the opening recreation however did not put up a lot resistance within the second as the competition lasted slightly below an hour. This was Lakshya’s fifth loss to Naraoka in seven conferences.
Meanwhile, Satwik and Chirag fell to the People’s Republic of China’s Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang, the Paris 2024 males’s doubles silver medallist, by a 24-22, 21-14 scoreline.
A fiercely contested opening recreation went proper all the way down to the wire earlier than the Indian pair let it slip in opposition to the fifth-seeded Chinese workforce. The second recreation, by comparability, was much more one-sided in favour of Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang.
World No. 15 Satwik-Chirag, returning to the courtroom for the primary time since final month’s Indonesia Open, like Lakshya, had defeated the Republic of Korea’s Kang Min-hyuk and Kim Dong Ju within the opening spherical.
This was the Indian pair’s fourth straight loss to the Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang pairing.
Anupama Upadhyaya, India’s final hope within the BWF Super 750 badminton event, tried to place up a struggle in opposition to world No. 2 Chinese shuttler Wang Zhiyi, the reigning Asian champion, however was ultimately outclassed 13-21, 21-11, 21-12.
None of the opposite Indian gamers in motion on the Japan Open, together with double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu, had managed to make it previous the opening spherical.
Indian shuttlers will probably be subsequent seen in motion on the big-ticket China Open Super 1000, which begins subsequent Tuesday. (ANI)