World No. 8 Lakshya Sen crashed out of the Indonesia Open badminton event after dropping to compatriot HS Prannoy in an all-India second spherical conflict right here on Wednesday.
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Sen was comprehensively overwhelmed 10-21 9-21 by Prannoy in a males’s singles match that lasted slightly greater than half an hour.
Sen, who’s in pink sizzling type, clinched his first-ever Super 500 title this yr. The 20-year-old reached the finals of the distinguished All England Championships and was additionally a part of the Indian males’s staff that lifted the historic Thomas Cup crown.
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Interestingly, this was Prannoy’s first-ever win towards Sen out of their three head-to-head conferences up to now.
In the doubles motion, the duo of M R Arjun and Dhruv Kapila opened their account with a win, getting the higher of upper ranked Japanese pair of Kelichiro Matsui and Yoshinori Takeuchi 27-25 18-25 21-19.
However, it was curtains for the ladies’s duo of Ashwini Bhat and Shikha Gautam because it misplaced 9-21 10-21 to China’s Zhang Shu Xian and Zheng Yu in simply 28 minutes.
The marketing campaign additionally ended for one more ladies’s pairing of Haritha M Harinarayan and Ashna Noy because the duo additionally suffered straight-game defeat towards South Korea’s Jeong Na Eun and Kim Hye Jeong.
In the Sen versus Prannoy sport, the previous was in no match in entrance of over-aggressive Prannoy, who regardless of trailing 3-6 at one level, made a powerful comeback, courtesy some good photographs.
The 29-year-old finally prolonged his result in 21-10 and pocketed the primary sport simply.
In the second sport, Prannoy continued from the place he left off and took an enormous 11-3 lead.
Trailing, Sen was anticipated to make a comeback, however Prannoy’s unplayable cross-court smashes made it a troublesome affair for the previous.