Indian ladies’s doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand scripted a surprising win to progress to the quarterfinals however Lakshya Sen bowed out within the males’s singles competitors of the All England Championships in Birmingham on Thursday. Commonwealth Games bronze medallists Treesa and Gayatri continued their rise as they shocked former world No. 1 pair of Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota 21-14, 24-22 in a pulsating contest. The world No. 17 Indian pair, which had reached the semifinals of the final version, will subsequent face Chinese mixture of Li Wen Mei and Liu Xuan Xuan.
Last 12 months’s finalist Sen, nevertheless, could not discover his contact in opposition to Anders Antonsen, taking place 13-21, 15-21 in 52 minutes. It was a candy revenge from the Danish, who had gone down in straight video games to the Indian in 2022.

Returning from an harm, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy paired up together with his companion Chirag Shetty however their gallant struggle ended with a 21-10, 17-21, 19-21 loss to China’s world No. 10 Liang Wei Keng and Wang Chang.

Treesa and Gayatri have been in good kind, having claimed a win over world No. 7 Tan Pearly and Thinnah Muralitharan on the Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championship in February. In their opening spherical right here, the Indian duo upset seventh seeds Jongkolphan Kitiiharakul and Rawinda Prajongai of Thailand.

In the boys’s singles match, Sen and Antonsen engaged in some high-quality rallies with the latter leaping to a 8-4 lead initially after which grabbing a three-point cushion on the break.

But Sen quickly began shifting nicely and levelled at 11-11 after profitable a 52-shot rally however the Indian could not proceed the momentum as Antonsen pulled away to 19-13 after unleashing a winner on his opponent’s forehand to win one other thrilling rally.

A few errors from Sen and Antonsen held the bragging proper within the battle between the 2 former top-10 gamers.

After the change of sides, Sen stepped up his sport and labored his option to a 9-4 after which 11-5 benefit on the mid-game interval. Antonsen then scripted a fightback to maneuver inside one level of the Indian at 10-11.

Sen misplaced his means after that as Antonsen began dictating the phrases to show the tables at 14-13 because the Indian pushed one to the online. Sen missed a couple of photographs because the Dane grabbed 5 match factors and sealed it on first probability.

The second-round exit means Sen will lose quite a lot of his rating factors and slip additional within the BWF chart. The former world No. 6 had misplaced within the first spherical at German Open to slide to the nineteenth rank final Tuesday.

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