Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Aug 24: Lakshya Sen, young Indian badminton player, defeated Luis Penalver of Spain in straight games on Wednesday at the BWF World Championships, advancing him into the men’s singles pre-quarterfinals.
Commonwealth Games winner Sen prevailed 21-17 21-10 in his second round match, completing the formality in 72 minutes. The ninth seeded Sen took a six-point lead to make it 13-7 after falling behind 3-4. Before easily winning the opening game, the Indians maintained their lead.
Sen, a bronze medalist at the global championships, continued to dominate the Spanish shuttler after that and took the second game by a wider margin. The first six points of the second game were shared by the two players, but the 21-year-old Indian player moved ahead thanks to his superior performance.
Sen eventually finished the job after enjoying a commanding nine-point lead at one point in the second game.
M R Arjun and Dhruv Kapila of India advanced to the pre-quarterfinals of the prestigious tournament earlier, but Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy were eliminated in the second round.
In their second-round match, unseeded Arjun and Kapila defeated eighth seeds and bronze medalists from the previous event Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen of Denmark 21-17 21-16.
Next, they will take on Singapore’s Hee Yong Kai Terry and Loh Kean Hean.
On the other side, Chen Qing Chen and Jia Yi Fan of China defeated Ponnappa and Sikki with a score of 21-15 21-10 in 42 minutes. Pooja Dandu and Sanjana Santosh, the other women’s doubles team, lost to the third-seeded Korean team of Lee So Hee and Shin Seung Chan 15-21 7-21 and were eliminated from the competition.
