Lakshya Sen inched nearer to a maiden Olympic medal after turning into the primary Indian male shuttler to advance to the semifinals with an exciting three-game win over Chinese language Taipei’s Chou Tien Chen on the Paris Video games right here on Friday.
The 22-year-old from Almora, a 2021 World Championships bronze medallist, mixed tempo with precision and held his nerve throughout key moments to emerge 19-21 21-15 21-12 winner in opposition to world quantity 11 Chou, a 2022 World Championships bronze medallist in an intense quarterfinal battle.
Sen, the reigning Commonwealth Video games champion, will face the winner of the match between 2021 World Champion Loh kean Yew of Singapore and Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen of Denmark within the final 4.
Girls’s singles gamers PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal are the one Indians to have crossed the quarterfinal stage in Olympics. In males’s singles, Parupalli Kashyap and Kidambi Srikanth had reached the quarterfinals in 2012 London and 2016 Rio editions respectively.