Lakshya Sen Falls Short Against Viktor Axelsen in Olympic Semifinals, Eyes Bronze Medal

The 22-year-old from Almora, a 2021 Big Showdowns bronze decoration, wasted a three-point advantage in the main game and a 7-0 lead in the second to give 20-22, 14-21, over to the double cross title holder Axelsen in a 54-minute elimination round clash. “I must be a smidgen more persistent and evaluate a couple of things that might have gone the alternate way. Generally speaking, at that stage, whatever came into my head, that’s what I did. Have a great deal of things to gain from this match. I’ll be prepared for later. Right now is an ideal opportunity to take a gander at the match and take a couple of positive things and take a gander at things I can develop. And afterward fail to remember this outcome. It’s only one match,” Lakshya Sen said after the match.

Sen will get one more opportunity to turn into the main Indian male shuttler to win an Olympic decoration when he meets Lee Zii Jia of Malaysia in the bronze award season finisher.

India have always lost an Olympic gold decoration in badminton, with PV Sindhu guaranteeing a silver and bronze at the Rio and Tokyo Olympics and Saina Nehwal getting a bronze in the London Games.

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Making his Olympics debut, Sen made history subsequent to turning into the main Indian individual male shuttler to arrive at the last four of the masterpiece with a 19-21, 21-15, 21-12 win over Chinese Taipei’s Chou Tien Chen in an extreme quarterfinal match.

The 22-year-old from Almora, a supreme Province Games champion and a 2021 Big Showdowns bronze medallist, thoroughly searched in full oversight as he scored up a 21-12, 21-6 win over world no. 13 HS Prannoy in a 39-minute pre-quarterfinal conflict. Sen had joined Parupalli Kashyap and Kidambi Srikanth, who had arrived at the quarterfinals in the London and Rio versions of the Olympic Games in 2012 and 2016 separately.