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Not a bully day: An inconsistent show ended Lakshya’s campaign. | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA
Lakshya Sen paid the terms for inconsistency and inability to power the shuttle arsenic good arsenic the gait of the lucifer and bowed retired of the India Open Super 750 lawsuit connected Friday, bringing an extremity to the location challenge. Lakshya mislaid 17-21, 13-21, 18-21 to Taiwan’s Chun-Yi Lin successful the quarterfinals — his 4th nonaccomplishment successful arsenic galore face-offs, including the 2025 variation here. The Indian had a shaky commencement and kept hitting wide, incapable to antagonistic the drift. When helium recovered his rhythm, helium started taking the gait disconnected astatine the nett and avoiding going excessively deep. That helped him instrumentality the archetypal game. However, the Taiwanese upped the ante successful the 2nd crippled with speedy returns, controlling the points with a premix of almighty smashes and delicate drops astatine the net. He reeled disconnected 9 consecutive points to determination from 2-5 to 11-5, not giving Lakshya a chance. Despite the 3rd crippled being adjacent and Lakshya taking three-point leads twice, Lin was ne'er successful trouble. Once helium nosed ahead, helium sealed the contention astatine the archetypal opportunity. He volition instrumentality connected Canadia’s Victor Lai next. World No. 2 Kunlavut Vitidsarn fell to Loh Kean Yew successful 3 games, the Singaporean tasting lone his 2nd occurrence successful their 10 meetings, the erstwhile 1 dating backmost to 2015. Loh’s reward volition beryllium a clash against Indonesian Jonatan Christie, different subordinate helium has ne'er defeated connected the World Tour successful 8 erstwhile attempts. In the women’s section, Korean World No. 1 An Se Young continued her march with a 21-16, 21-8 triumph implicit Putra Kusuma Wardani. She volition instrumentality connected Ratchanok Intanon successful a repetition of their semifinal present past year, seeking her 13th triumph successful 14 matches. Zhi Yi Wang and Chen Yu Fei volition look disconnected successful an all-Chinese clash successful the different semifinal. Important results: Friday: Quarterfinal: Men: Chun-Yi Lin (Tpe) bt Lakshya Sen 17-21, 21-13, 21-18. Thursday: Second round:Men: Lakshya bt Kenta Nishimoto (Jpn) 21-19, 21-10; Christo Popov (Fra) bt K. Srikanth 21-14, 17-21, 21-17; Loh Kean Yew (Sin) bt H.S. Prannoy 18-21, 21-19, 21-14. Doubles: Wei Keng Liang & Chang Wang (Chn) bt Hariharan Amsakarunan & M.R. Arjun 21-15, 21-15; Hiroki Midorikawa & Kyohei Yamashita (Jpn) bt Chirag Shetty & Satwiksairaj Rankireddy 25-27, 23-21, 21-19. Women: Yue Han (Chn) bt Malvika Bansod 21-18, 21-15. Doubles: Yi Jing Li & Xu Min Luo (Chn) bt Treesa Jolly & Gayatri Gopichand 20-22, 24-22, 23-21.
Published - January 16, 2026 10:38 p.m. IST
