Lakshya Sen.
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Top Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen progressed to the boys’s singles quarterfinals with an upset win over Li Shi Feng of China within the Thailand Open Super 500 match right here on Thursday.
Sen beat his fourth seeded Chinese opponent 21-17 21-15 in a spherical of 16 match that lasted 49 minutes.
The world quantity 23 Indian will face qualifier Leong Jun Hao of Malaysia within the quarterfinals on Friday.
Another Indian, Kiran George, who made it to the primary spherical via the qualifiers, additionally superior to the boys’s singles quarterfinals after beating world quantity 26 Weng Hong Yang of China 21-11 21-19 in 39 minutes.
It is the primary time that Kiran, the world quantity 59, has reached the quarterfinal at a BWF World Tour Super 500 occasion.
The 2022 Odisha Open winner will face the winner of the match between Ng Ka Long Angus of Hong Kong and Toma Junior Popov of France in a final eight conflict on Friday.
In the ladies’s singles, an out of contact Saina Nehwal misplaced 11-21 14-21 to third seed and world quantity 5 He Bing Jao of China in a spherical of 16 match to exit from the match.
It was additionally the tip of the highway for 23-year-old Ashmita Chaliha, who went down 18-21 13-21 to former Olympic and three-time world champion Carolina Marin of Spain.
The Indian males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty additionally misplaced their pre-quarterfinal match to Muhammad Shohibul Fikri and Bagas Maulana of Indonesia 26-24 11-21 17-21.
The Super 500 is a Grade 2 (stage 4) occasion within the BWF match rating system.
The BWF World Tour is split into six ranges, particularly World Tour Finals, 4 Super 1000, six Super 750, seven Super 500, and 11 Super 300 tournaments. One different class of match, the BWF Tour Super 100 stage, additionally provides rating factors.
