Lakshya Sen defeated Zhao Jun Peng in a thriller on Friday to cruise into the semi-finals of the ongoing BWF World Championships in Huelva.
Lakshya Sen defeated Zhao Jun Peng in a thriller on Friday to cruise into the semi-finals of the ongoing BWF World Championships in Huelva.
Fighting at court 2, the Indian went past the Chinese language shuttler by 21-15, 15-21, 22-20 in a mammoth one hour and 7 minutes clash. With this preserve, the 20-twelve months-feeble confirmed India`s 2nd medal at the 2021 BWF World Championships and his first medal at the Worlds.
Sen will now clash with Srikanth Kidambi for a web enlighten in the final. This implies India will return with as a minimal one silver medal from Spain.
Trailing at the first ruin, the Indian world No. 19 entirely dominated after the restart and exhibited some impressive court presence to head a sport up in opposition to the Chinese language shuttler.
Chinese language world No. 42 then stepped up his sport and got right here out all guns blazing in the 2nd sport. Zhao Jun Peng came across a technique to curb Sen`s offensive shots and compelled a decider.The third sport was all but one-sided as the shuttle saved changing the racquet of every gamers.
Though, Zhao Jun Peng had the 11-8 lead in opposition to the Indian at the midgame ruin but Lakshya clawed his formula back to stage the final sport 11-11.With the sport at 19-20, the Indian saved a match level and proceeded to preserve the match by maintaining his nerves.
Study out how Sen despite being a match level down, produced three thrilling facets on the proceed:
Horny thrilling! Lakshya Sen __ turns the match around and is by design of to an all-Indian semifinal in opposition to Kidambi Srikanth.
Apply stay circulate: https://t.co/TjoFnU4PnB#BWFWorldChampionships #Huelva2021 pic.twitter.com/IlrdMV09w2
— BWF (@bwfmedia) December 17, 2021
With ANI inputs
