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World title bronze-medallist shuttler Lakshya Sen overcame a resolute Ayush Shetty successful consecutive games to unafraid a spot successful the men’s singles semifinals astatine the Australian Open Super 500 tourney successful Sydney connected Friday (November 21, 2025).
The seventh-seeded Indian, who had beaten the 20-year-old Shetty astatine the aforesaid signifier successful the Hong Kong Open earlier this year, won 23-21, 21-11 to acceptable up a last-four clash against Chinese-Taipei’s Chou Tien Chen, the 2nd effect successful the event.
Chou, ranked No. 9 successful the satellite and a 2018 Asian Games metallic medallist, overcame Farhan Alwi 13-21, 23-21, 21-16 successful a lucifer lasting a marathon 1 hour, 23 minutes.
Alwi had defeated Indian stalwart H.S. Prannoy successful the circular of 16.
Sen, 26, who had made it to the Hong Kong Open last but has gone without a rubric this year, had a pugnacious clip beating Shetty successful the opening game, with the higher-ranked Indian trailing 6-9 earlier helium won 4 successive points portion trailing 9-10 to instrumentality the precocious manus astatine 13-10.
However, Shetty, the U.S. Open Super 300 champion earlier this year, clawed backmost to instrumentality the pb aggregate times successful a see-saw conflict earlier levelling it astatine 21-all erstwhile the elder pro yet closed retired the opener.
The 2nd crippled of the 53-minute contention turned retired to beryllium a one-sided 1 with Sen taking an aboriginal 6-1 lead, which swelled to 15-7 successful nary clip arsenic Shetty’s situation wilted.
Sen is the lone Indian remaining successful men’s singles aft elder pros Prannoy and Kidambi Srikanth had made aboriginal exits connected Thursday (November 20).
The top-seeded Indian men’s doubles brace of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, who made it to the past 8 with an casual triumph against Chinese-Taipei’s Su Ching Heng and Wu Guan Xun, volition instrumentality connected 5th seeds Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Shohibul Fikri aboriginal successful the day, hoping to unafraid a spot successful the semifinals.
