Badminton Asia Championships: Lakshya Sen Loses To Shi Yu Qi, Bows Out In Opening Round

Star Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen bowed in the initial round of men's singles at the Badminton Asia Titles in the wake of experiencing a straight-game misfortune to neighborhood number one and favorite Shi Yu Qi in Ningbo on Wednesday. Big showdowns bronze medallist Sen gave a decent record of himself and battled without holding back yet the higher-positioned Chinese ultimately ended up being areas of strength for too the Indian lost 19-21 15-21 in the tiresome opener that endured 53 minutes. The Indians didn't have the ideal beginning in that frame of mind as the gifted Priyanshu Rajawat additionally crashed out in the men's singles opening round. Rajawat was no counterpart for eight-cultivated Lee Zii Jia of Malaysia, losing 9-21 13-21 out of 39 minutes. It was likewise shades for the Panda sisters - - Rutuparna and Swetaparna - - in the initial round of ladies' pairs, losing 8-21 13-21 against seventh seeds Zhang Shu Xian and Zheng Yu W of China. In opposition to the end-product, Sen kept his Chinese adversary honest in the primary game and didn't permit him a forceful beginning. Sen exhibited splendid court inclusion and reveled the Chinese in lengthy assemblies prior to getting focuses with his crushes and inch-wonderful drop shots to lead 11-7 at the difference in closes. Sen kept his nose ahead till 14 focuses even as Qi began to hook once more into the challenge, wearing out Sen with long revitalizes and afterward completing the focuses with cross-court crushes. The world No. 2 Qi in the long run started to lead the pack at 16-14 by getting five focuses in succession. In any case, Sen was couldn't care less about to surrender easily as he drew level at 19-19 preceding Qi stashed the main game. The content was comparable in the subsequent game, as both the shuttlers were going endlessly neck till the midway break. Sen endeavored to keep the meetings alive and made some splendid plunging recoveries to not permit simple focuses to his adversary, and at one point drove 9-8. Sen didn't surrender and jumped profound to save a point and afterward brought the condition down to 11-12. However at that point natural mistakes began to crawl into the Indian's down. He lost steam and yielded simple focuses as Qi recovered control and took off with the subsequent game. (This story has not been altered by NDTV staff and is auto-created from a partnered feed.)