CWG 22: 20-year-old Lakshya Sen wins badminton Gold after gorgeous fightback in last vs Ng Tze Yong
20-year-old Lakshya Sen scripted an unimaginable comeback in opposition to in-form Ng Tze Yong of Malaysia to win a Gold in males’s singles badminton in his maiden look on the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
Lakshya Sen misplaced the opening sport 19-21 after a hard-fought battle in opposition to lower-ranked Ng Tze Yong of Malaysia however he fought again to win a memorable Gold for India on the closing day of the Birmingham Games.
Lakshya was trailing 8-9 within the second sport however stitched a run of 13 straight factors to drive a decider which he received as he rode on the momentum to script a shocking victory within the last that stretched to greater than an hour. The Indian shuttler received the fiercely-fought males’s singles last 19-21, 21-9, 21-16.
CWG 2022: MEDAL TABLE
Lakshya Sen, a world championships bronze medalist, joins his mentor Prakash Padukone (1978), Parupalli Kashyap (2014) and Syed Modi (1982) in an elite listing of Indian males to have received Gold in singles at Commonwealth Games.
Lakshya Sen’s Gold medal got here an hour after PV Sindhu received her maiden singles Gold medal, finishing the total set of Commonwealth Games medal. The Indian had misplaced to Saina Nehwal within the last in Gold Coast however she was flawless regardless of enjoying a strapping on her left ankle.
INCREDIBLE RISE FOR LAKSHYA
With his maiden medal for India at a multi-sport occasion, Lakshya is definitely displaying indicators of what’s to return because the Almorah shuttler is considered one of many future stars of the game.
Lakshya has been in phenomenal type, placing behind the heartbreak of not qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 as a result of Covid-19 pandemic. Lakshya was within the race to e-book a berth in his maiden Games look however the cancellation of tournaments on the tour as a result of pandemic in 2020 noticed him miss out on one.
Ever since, Lakshya, who’s chiseled on the Prakash Padukone Academy, has been in high quality type on the tour. Lakshya received his maiden World Championships medal – a bronze in Huelva final 12 months whereas he completed runner-up on the prestigious All England Championships earlier this 12 months.
Lakshya Sen had a comparatively simpler passage to the finals because the 20-year-old had defeated lower-ranked gamers, Georges Julien Paul of Mauritius, within the quarter-final earlier than keeping off a menace from Singapore Jia Heng Teh within the semi-final.
The prime seed and World No. 10 was dominant en path to the ultimate as he didn’t let his lower-ranked opponents bother him in any respect, flaunting his unimaginable combination of attacking and defensive play.
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