Digital Desk: Tuesday saw top Indian
shuttler Lakshya Sen lose in straight games to Hong Kong's Ng Ka Long Angus in
the men's singles match at the Hylo Open badminton tournament in Saarbrucken,
Germany. The world championship bronze medalist and Commonwealth Games champion
Sen, 21, lost the match in the first round, which lasted barely 27 minutes,
12-21 5-21. The seventh-seeded Indian put on a bad performance because his
opponent outplayed him. Sen had trouble the entire game.
Sen fell behind after the score was
tied at 2-2 in the opening game, and Angus quickly pulled ahead of the Indian
to take the lead at 1-0.
Sen's performance in the second game
was significantly worse as he let Angus score nine straight points at one point
to win the game.
In the first round of the mixed
doubles, the Chinese team of Feng Yan Zhe and Huang Dong Ping defeated the
Indian team of Ishaan Bhatnagar and Tanisha Crasto 13-21, 12-21.
In addition to Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, who won the French Open, other Indians competing in the Super 300 competition include Kidambi Srikanth, Sameer Verma, H. S. Prannoy, Saina Nehwal, Malvika Bansod, and Sameer Verma.
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