New Delhi. India’s star badminton participant Lakshya Sen wish to finish his season on a excessive observe with a very good efficiency in the star-studded first King Cup International Badminton Open beginning on Friday (December 27). Earlier this month, Lakshya had received the title in the Syed Modi Super 300 match held in Lucknow.
23-year-old Lakshya Sen from Almora will face a few of the greatest males’s singles gamers in the world throughout the three-day competitors. The Twelfth-ranked Indian, who missed out on the bronze medal after shedding the playoff at the Paris Olympics, will face Seventeenth-ranked Angus Ng Ka Long of Hong Kong in the first spherical of the competitors.
The match, began by two-time Olympic champion Lin Dan of China, will see eight males’s singles gamers compete for high honours, with no rating factors as it’s not a part of the BWF calendar. Lakshya Sen had received the bronze medal in the World Championship. Apart from this, he’s a gold medal winner in Thomas Cup, silver medal winner in Asian Games and gold and silver medal winner in Commonwealth Games.
FIRST PUBLISHED: December 26, 2024, 21:21 IST