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By: Shree1news, 17 DEC 2021
Madrid [Spain]: 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.
Battling at court 2, the Indian went past the chinese shuttler by 21-15, 15-21, 22-20 in a titanic one hour and 7 mins clash.
With this win, the 20-year-old showed India’s second medal at the 2021 BWF world Championships and his first medal at the Worlds.
Sen will now conflict with Srikanth Kidambi for an area within the final. this indicates India will return with at the least one silver medal from Spain.
Trailing at the first break, the Indian world No. 19 absolutely dominated after the restart and exhibited some fantastic court presence to go a game up towards the chinese shuttler.
Chinese world No. 42 then stepped up his game and came out all guns blazing within the 2d game. Zhao Jun Peng found a way to curb Sen’s offensive pictures and forced a decider.
The 0.33 game changed into all however one-sided as the shuttle kept changing the racquet of both players. despite the fact that, Zhao Jun Peng had the 11-8 lead against the Indian on the midgame break however Lakshya clawed his manner returned to degree the final sport 11-11.
With the game at 19-20, the Indian saved a match point and proceeded to win the match via holding his nerves.
Earlier, Kidambi Srikanth defeated Mark Caljouw to cruise into the semi-finals of the Championships.
Former world number one Indian thrashed the Dutch shuttler by 21-8, 21-7 in a competition that lasted for just 26 minutes.
Source:FI
