India’s Lakshya Sen bowed out of the China Masters 2026 badminton match within the opening spherical, whereas Kidambi Srikanth superior to the pre-quarterfinals in Shenzhen on Wednesday.
Lakshya Sen, thirteenth within the badminton rankings, went down 21-14, 21-7 in 38 minutes to Canada’s world No. 9 Victor Lai, a bronze medallist on the final two BWF World Championships.
The Indian badminton player made a vivid begin and raced to a 4-0 lead however Victor Lai turned the sport round and led 11-8 on the mid-game interval.
The Canadian shuttler then received 5 successive factors to open up a 17-11 lead and take the opening sport. The second sport proved extra one-sided. Lakshya trailed 11-4 on the mid-game interval and was by no means in a position to mount a restoration.
The defeat continued a stop-start season for Lakshya. The 25-year-old Indian reached the All England Open ultimate in March however has struggled to maintain that type constantly and in addition suffered a second-round exit on the World Championships in New Delhi final month.
Victor Lai has now overwhelmed Lakshya in three of their 4 conferences this yr. Lakshya’s solely victory got here within the All England semi-finals, whereas the Canadian subsequently prevailed on the Thomas Cup, China Open and China Masters.
Former world No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth, in the meantime, produced a powerful consequence to beat Chinese language Taipei’s world No. 21 Chi Yu-jen 21-16, 21-15 in 35 minutes on the BWF Tremendous 750 badminton occasion.
The world No. 34 Indian shuttler, who completed runner-up on the US Open in June, will face Victor Lai within the pre-quarterfinals.
World No. 5 males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty began with a 21-11, 21-16 victory over Malaysia’s Junaidi Arif and Kang Khai Xing in 40 minutes.
The fourth-seeded Indians have been examined within the second sport, with the 2 pairs locked at 16-16. Satwik and Chirag, nonetheless, received the ultimate 5 factors to finish the match in straight video games.
They are going to subsequent face France’s Christo Popov and Toma Junior Popov within the pre-quarter-finals.
Within the girls’s singles, Tanvi Sharma continued her spectacular season with a 21-16, 21-17 victory over Denmark’s world No. 40 Amalie Schulz.
The world No. 26 Indian, who received her maiden BWF World Tour title on the Taipei Open final month, will face ninth-ranked Tomoka Miyazaki of Japan within the pre-quarterfinals.
The blended doubles pair of Dhruv Kapila and Olympian Tanisha Crasto additionally progressed comfortably, beating Thailand’s Tonkid Saeheng and Tonrug Saeheng 21-8, 21-9 in simply 24 minutes.
They are going to subsequent face Chinese language Taipei’s Liu Kuang Heng and Hsu Yin-Hui, who knocked out fourth seeds Thom Gicquel and Delphine Delrue of France.
Devika Sihag, nonetheless, bowed out of the ladies’s singles after shedding 21-18, 21-15 to Bulgaria’s Kaloyana Nalbantova.
In blended doubles, Rohan Kapoor and Ruthvika Shivani Gadde went down 21-16, 21-18 to Chinese language Taipei’s Wu Guan Xun and Lee Chia Hsin.
