Lakshya Sen enters second round of Indonesia Open

Indian star Lakshya Sen entered the men’s singles second round of the Indonesia Open Super 1000 tournament with a straight-match victory over Japan’s Kanta Tsuneyama in Jakarta on Tuesday. Sen took just 40 minutes to beat Tsuneyama 21-12, 21-17 in an opening clash. Sen, who reached Olympic qualification with back-to-back French Open and British Championship semi-final finishes, will face the winner of the match between seventh seed Anthony Sinisuka Ginting of Indonesia and Japan’s Kenta Nishimoto.

However, it was curtains for Kiran George in the men’s singles event, but not before giving a tough fight to China’s Hong Yang Weng 21-11, 10-21, 20-22.

Indian B mixed doubles pair Sumeeth Reddy and Sikki Reddy had to fight hard before beating American pair Vinson Chiu and Jennie Gai 18-21, 21-16, 21-17 in the opening round.

But a herculean task awaits the Indian duo as they will face the winner of the match between top seeds Si Wei Zheng and Ya Qiong Huang of China and the Indonesian combination of Rehan Naufal Kusharjanto and Lisa Ayu Kusumawati in the next round.

Later in the day, the Indian women’s pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand will face Chinese Taipei’s Yu-Pei Cheng and Yu Hsing Sun, while former world No. 1 HS Prannoy will face Priyanshu Rajawat in an all-India game. men’s singles opening round contest.

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