Lakshya Sen Advances to pre-quarters in China Masters
Asian junior champion Lakshya Sen continued his Winning Campaign and entered the Quarterfinals of the China Masters Badminton Championship Tournament on Thursday. World number-103 enters in the Third round of the Men's Singles, after defeating Korea's Ha Young-Woong 21-14, 21-15 in straight games. This was the first match between the two players.
Lakshya Sen is an Indian badminton player born in Almora he belongs to a badminton player's family. Where his Father, D K Sen, is a coach in India and his brother, Chirag Sen, is also an international badminton player. Who was trained at the Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy, Sen has shown his talent as a badminton player at a young age and had a brilliant year in the junior badminton circuit in 2016.
He became the number one junior singles player in BWF World Junior ranking in February 2017. Sen also competed in the senior international level and won the men's singles title at the 2016 India International Series tournament. He emerged as the champion at the 2018 Asian Junior Championships defeating the top-seeded World No. 1 Kunlavut Vitidsarn in the final.
The China Masters is an annual badminton tournament held in China. It became part of the BWF Super Series tournaments in 2007.
Since 2014 the level of the tournament was downgraded to BWF Grand Prix Gold because, although China bid in the autumn of 2012 to continue to host 2 BWF Super Series tournaments, the Changzhou bid was unsuccessful and the China Masters was replaced for the 2014-2017 Superseries cycle by the Australian Open.
Starting from 2018, the tournament is a part of World Tour Grade 2 Level 3 tournament (BWF World Tour Super 750) and renamed as Fuzhou China Open.
In the quarter-finals of the tournament, Sen will face Zhou Zeqi of China who Ranked 42nd in the World Rankings. Sen did a fantastic job against the opponent of Korea and got the match under his court name only in 46 minutes.
In the first game, the Indian made a strong start, and once after the score was 1-1, it was not even behind. Woong could not make his game even better in the second game and lost the match.
In the women's singles, India's Sai Uttejitha Rai Chukka lost her first round match against China's Siqi Wang 21-17 20-22 7-21 in a hard-fought match that lasted one hour and three minutes.