Another spectacular week ended with a creditable semifinal end for star shuttler Lakshya Sen after he stumbled to a three-game loss in opposition to Indonesia’s Jonatan Christie on the All England Championships on Saturday, prolonging India’s lengthy anticipate the coveted trophy.
In a recreation of fantastic margins, the 22-year-old, who had completed runner-up in the 2022 version, was marginally quick as he slipped to a 21-12, 10-21, 15-21 defeat to world no. 9 Christie, the 2018 Asian Games gold medallist.
Sen, who reached the semifinals of the French Open Super 750 the earlier week, has been on the court docket for 491 minutes enjoying some nerve-wrecking badminton in the final 11 days and, maybe, these gruelling three-setters may need taken their toll on him as he ran out of steam in the semis.
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Christie will now face fellow Indonesian Anthony Sinisuka Ginting in Sunday’s last.
Though he failed to go the gap, the final two weeks have been memorable for Sen, who was wanting down and out after a sequence of first-round exits, together with losses at Malaysia Super 1000 and India Super 750 this season.
The back-to-back semifinal finishes are doubtless to lock his Paris Olympic berth when the BWF rankings are revealed by April finish.
All England Championships, the oldest badminton event in the world, has its personal aura and Sen managed to beat fourth-seeded Dane Anders Antonsen and Malaysia’s world No. 10 Lee Zii Jia en route to the semifinals however Christie proved to be a roadblock which he couldn’t circumvent.
On Friday evening, Sen had displayed nice psychological resolve for a surprising win over former champion Malaysia’s Jia to progress to the boys’s singles semifinals.
He produced good variations whereas attacking and stored preventing to outlast Lee 20-22, 21-16, 21-19 in an absorbing quarterfinal that lasted 71 minutes.
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