French Open: Kidambi Srikanth beats compatriot Lakshya Sen in straight video games

Kidambi Srikanth prevailed over Lakshya Sen to advance to the boys’s singles second spherical of the French Open on Wednesday.

Paris,UPDATED: Oct 26, 2022 22:52 IST

Kidambi Srikanth outperforms Lakshya Sen in French Open (Reuters)

By India Today Web Desk: Kidambi Srikanth defeated Lakshya Sen in an all-Indian duel to storm into the second spherical of the French Open Super 750 badminton match on Wednesday. Srikanth, the silver medalist on the 2021 World Championships, defeated junior compatriot Sen 21-18, 21-18 in a 46-minute first-round match.

This was solely the second profession match between the highest two Indian shuttlers. Sen had beforehand misplaced to his senior compatriot within the semifinals of the 2021 World Championships, taking bronze. The winner of the first-round match between Rasmus Gemke of Denmark and Nhat Nguyen of Ireland will face Srikanth subsequent.

Sameer Verma, in the meantime, registered an upset win over Anthony Sinisuka Ginting of Indonesia to additionally make it to the second spherical. Verma beat sixth-seeded Ginting 21-15, 21-23, 22-20 in a hard-fought upset win in a first-round match that lasted one hour and 17 minutes. Verma made a exceptional fightback within the deciding sport. He saved two match factors after being 18-20 down.

HS Prannoy additionally made it to the second spherical of the match with a hard-fought win over Liew Daren of Malaysia within the males’s singles. Prannoy defeated his lower-ranked opponent 21-16, 16-21, 21-16 in a first-round match that lasted one hour and 13 minutes.

Prannoy will subsequent face Lu Guang Zu of China. In the boys’s doubles, the Indian pair of M R Arjun and Dhruv Kapila misplaced to the fifth-seeded Indonesian duo of Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Rian Ardiant 15-21 16-21 within the first spherical.

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Oct 26, 2022