The world no.9 Jonatan Christie ended Lakshya Sen’s marketing campaign in the All England Open Badminton Championships 2024 with an exhilarating 12-21, 21-10, 15-21 win in the boys’s singles semifinal in Birmingham on Saturday.
Lakshya Sen, the world no.19 and runner-up on the All England Open in 2022, went down simply in the opening set however made a shocking comeback in the second set with a dominant 21-10 win. He additionally took the 98-7 lead in the decider however the Indonesian star made a sensational comeback to take the set and recreation.Â
Christie is about to face compatriot Anthony Ginting, the world no.5, in the boys’s singles last. With Lakshya’s exit, India’s problem on the prestigious BWF Super 1000 event got here to an finish.Â
This was the third loss for Lakshya in 4 BWF encounters towards Christie. Lakshya failed to progress past the primary spherical in seven consecutive BWF tournaments final 12 months however has regained his type in 2024. He additionally reached the semifinal of the French Open Super 750 the place he suffered a heartbreaking defeat towards Kunlavut Vitidsarn.Â
Lakshya, 22, produced comeback wins towards Anders Antonsen and Lee Zii Jia, the 2021 champion, in the final two rounds to enter the second consecutive BWF semifinal.
He was India’s solely hope for the title in the distinguished event after the world no.1 pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty’s shock exit in the spherical of 16 on Thursday. In ladies’s singles, PV Sindhu was knocked out by the world no.1 An Se Young in the spherical of 16.
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