Bali: Olympic Medal Twice Sindhu PV and Shuttler in the form of Lakshya Sen made an impressive start in the Badminton Masters Super 750 Indonesia tournament, reaching the second round with a contrasting victory on Tuesday.
Respond to Sindhu world champions, third seed, recorded a 21-15 victory, 21-19 over Supanida Katethong Thailand in a single woman in 43 minutes to set up a second round clash with Spain Clara Azurmendi.
However, the peak of the day was an amazing Lakshya victory over the world No.
10 of the Japanese Tsuneyama Tsuneyama in Single Putra.
The 20-year-old child from Almora, who has reached the semifinals at the Hylo Open Super 500 and the Dutch Open Final, shown extraordinary grit on the way to 21-17, 18-21, 21-17 victory over the Kanta in one hour.
and 8 minutes.
Lakshya will now face the top seed and two-time world champion Kento Momota in Japan in the next round.
Sindhu did not have much difficulty in surpassing supanida in the opening match when he underwent a 11-5 leader and made his opponent in the distance even after the break.
Supanida is more competitive in the second game when he continues to snap the heel of Sindhu.
Indians opened a 11-8 advantage at rest but Thai players continued to hide.
In 19-18, Sindhu won two match points.
Supanida saved one before Sindhu sealed the affair.
In single men, Lakshya, ranked 19th, continued his vumus to surprise his high-ranking opponent.
Lakshya strengthened the path from 6-9 in the opening match to lead the first 13-11 and then revoke four straight points from 14-13 to leave the Kanta and ride up.
In the second game, Lakshya rose 4-0 but Kanta clawed back at 10-8.
Indians ensure that he has a nose ahead at the interval but the main advantage is fascinated by Japan, who broke up from 14-14 to roar back into the contest.
In decider, Lakshya showed great mental disability when he fought back from 3-6 to jump to 13-8 with a six-point burst.
Kanta made it 16-16 but Lakshya made sure he had the last laugh because he won five of the next six points to enter the second half.
Among other things, a pair of the sixth seed Indian men’s doubles from the Satwikaraj Ranking and Chirag Shetty will fight Ong Yew Sin Malaysia and Teo Ee Yi later.
Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy will also take action against Denmark’s Alexandra Boje and Mette Poulsen.