Macau [China], July 31 (ANI): The Paris 2024 semifinalist, Lakshya Sen superior to the quarterfinals within the males’s singles competitors on the ongoing Macau Open badminton match, whereas the favored males’s doubles duo Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty additionally made it to the ultimate 16 on Thursday.
Lakshya was battling the world quantity 48, Chico Aura Dwi Wardoyo of Indonesia, and gained the match lasting an hour and 7 minutes by 21-14, 14-21, 21-17, as per Olympics.com.
Also, his compatriot Tharun Mannepalli pulled off an enormous stunner, defeating prime seed Lee Cheuk Yiu of Hong Kong. The Indian badminton participant battled in an up-and-down battle, successful by 19-21, 21-14, 22-20.
Seventh-seeded Ayush Shetty, who gained the US Open competitors, couldn’t make it previous the pre-quarters, shedding to Malaysia’s Justin Hoh by 21-18, 21-16.
In the boys’s doubles, world quantity 9 Satwik and Chirag fought again from being a sport down, overcoming the Japanese pair of Kakeru Kumagai and Hiroki Nishi.
After they had been trailing, Satwik and Chirag saved a match level within the second, earlier than edging it to drive a decider sport. They gained the match by 10-21, 22-20, 21-16.
The different males’s doubles pair of Pruthvi Krishnamurthy Roy and Sai Pratheek Ok had been ousted after a 21-18, 21-18 defeat towards fourth seeds Junaidi Arif and Yap Roy King of Malaysia.
Shifting focus to the ladies’s singles competitors, the marketing campaign ended for India after their remaining participant, Rakshitha Ramraj, misplaced a well-fought match to Thailand’s Busanan Ongbamrungphan 14-21, 21-10, 21-11
In the ladies’s doubles duo competitors, the group of Priya Konjengbam and Shruti Mishra additionally bowed out after a loss to Indonesia’s Meilysa Trias Puspita Sari and Rachel Allessya Rose by 21-14, 21-12.
In the blended doubles competitors, the fifth seed pairing of Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto misplaced to Jimmy Wong and two-time Commonwealth Games medallist Lai Pei Jing of Malaysia by 19-21, 21-13, 21-18 of their pre-quarterfinals conflict. (ANI)