Jakarta [Indonesia], January 23 (ANI): India’s problem within the Indonesia Masters 2025 ended after Lakshya Sen faltered within the second spherical on Thursday.
The present world quantity 10, Lakshya Sen, who reached the semi-finals on the Paris 2024 Olympics, noticed his run finish within the BWF Super 500 event after dropping his spherical of 16 match towards Kenta Nishimoto of Japan in a sport that lasted an hour and 13 minutes.
Nishimoto, ranked fifteenth in males’s singles badminton, gained the opening sport with a 21-16 scoreline, executing his expertise to perfection.
Lakshya retaliated and fought laborious to clinch the second sport with a 12-21 scoreline. He upped the ante within the second set, and the Japanese shuttler struggled to search out breakthroughs.
The decider went proper right down to the wire with each gamers giving their all. But in the long run, it was Nishimoto who held his nerve and clinched the third sport with a 23-21 win.
Before Lakshya, the reigning Asian Games champions, Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, suffered an upset towards Kittinupong Kedren and Dechapol Puavaranukroh of Thailand.
Chirag and Satwik, ranked ninth in males’s doubles badminton, had been ousted 22-20, 23-21 by the world No. 75 pair. The Indian duo squandered three sport factors within the first set and two extra within the second set to finish up on the dropping aspect within the match that lasted for 50 minutes.
Earlier on Thursday, blended doubles pair Tanisha Crasto and Dhruv Kapila was additionally eradicated by Malaysia’s Hoo Pang Ron and Cheng Su Yin within the spherical of 16. After dropping the primary sport, the Malaysians bounced again within the subsequent two to win the match 18-21, 21-15, 21-19.
The girls’s doubles pair of Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa was the final Indian problem on the Indonesia Masters. They gained the primary sport towards Malaysia’s Go Pei Kee and Teoh Mei Xing comprehensively however needed to take the exit after dropping the match 13-21, 24-22, 21-18. (ANI)