The Indian shuttles continued to disappoint on the international scene with Lakshya Sen and the pair of male male star men of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty who collapse in the second round of the Badminton Indonesia Masters Super 500 tournament in Jakarta on Thursday. Sen, ranked 10th in the world, has extended its race in difficulty on the international circuit with a defeat in the second round in single against Kenta Nishimoto of Japan 16-21 21-12 21-23 in 50 minutes. If that was not enough, the champions of Asian Games Satwik and Chirag, which have reached semifinals consecutive to Malaysia Super 1000 and India Super 750 in the last two weeks, also left the tournament with a loss of Kedren and Dechapol Puavaranukroh Kettinong.
Earlier in the day, the pair of mixed doubles of Dhruv Kapila and Tanshia Crasto wasted an early advance to lower 21-18 15-21 19-21 against Pang Ron Hoo and Su Yin Cheng in Malaysia in the second round.
Sen, a silver medalist for Asian Games and Golden Winner of Commonwealth Games, took a bad start for the match when he lost the first match.
The famous defense of India was skillfully discussed by the lower Nishimoto, when he took an advance of 9-3 and never looked back, despite Sen tried to return to 10-11. But Nishimoto used rapid gatherings and comfortably closed the first match.
Sen started quickly in the second match and ran to an advance of 6-3 with an aggressive Smash.
Nishimoto opted for long rallies to get tired of Sen, but the intelligent game of the Indian gave him an 11-6 lead to the break.
Nishimoto then made many thread errors, because Sen’s recovery capacity was fully exposed when he extends his advance at 16-8.
The Japanese were disturbed by the drift while Sen picked up at will to close the second match at 21-12 and force the match in the decision maker.
With the change of games, it was then Sen’s turn to fight while Nishimoto ran to a 5-1 advance in the decision maker.
But a calm and composed sen followed his opponent up to 7-7.
Sen took the lead for the first time in the decision-maker with a jump smash but made mistakes due to the drift to the 9-11 trail during the last break of equality.
Later in the day, the pair of colors in double feminine and ashwini Ponnappa seasoned will face the Malaysian combination of Pei Kee Go and Mei Xing Teoh.
Wednesday, the double Olympic PV Sindhu medalist and the next simple male player Priyanshu Rajawat collapsed during the first round.
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