Badminton, Olympics 2024: Lakshya Sen battles through for a win; Satwik-Chirag advance to quarters
Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto bow out of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
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India’s Lakshya Sen secured a hard-fought win against Julien Carraggi on Monday to keep his hopes of qualifying for the next round at the 2024 Paris Olympics alive.
Sen, playing hours after his win first win against Kevin Cordon was “deleted,” was put under tremendous pressure by the world No 52 from Belgium.
The Indian struggled to keep up with Carraggi for a major part of the opening game with the latter placing his smashes to perfection. The 4-4 start soon became 8-11 in favour of Carraggi and it was not until 18-18 before the Indian could draw level.
Sen, as he is known for, took his play up a notch towards the end of the first game. Carraggi had no anwers and surrendered the opening game 19-21.
Having pocketed the first game, Sen went into an autopilot mode in the second game. Though Carragi kept things tight, he found a way to win points at crucial junctures and wrapped up the match in 43 minutes, winning the second game 21-14.
Sen will now be in action on Wednesday against the 2020 Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Jonatan Christie. It will be a must-win contest for both the shuttlers, with the winner making it through to the knockouts and the loser crashing out of the...
