Badminton World Championships Day 2 Highlights: Lakshya Sen, Treesa Jolly-Gayatri Gopichand Emerge Victorious

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Badminton World Championships 2026 Day 2 Highlights: Lakshya Sen overcame early jitters to prevail over Collins Valentine Filimon of Bulgaria in three video games to progress to the second spherical of the lads’s singles occasion on the BWF World Championships. Sen registered a 16-21 21-8 21-4 win over Filimon in his opener that lasted 45 minutes. Sen will subsequent play the US’ Garret Tan, who defeated Switzerland’s Tobias Kuenzi 21-4 21-15. The unseeded Indian pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand surprised sixteenth seeds Lauren Lam and Allison Quynh Lee of america in straight video games to sail into the pre-quarterfinals of the ladies’s doubles occasion. Treesa and Gayatri took simply 38 minutes to beat their fancied opponents 21-15 21-12 and progress to the subsequent spherical. India witnessed a disastrous outing within the combined doubles occasion with the pairs of Rohan Kapoor and Ruthvika Shivani Gadde, and Ashith Surya and Amrutha Pramuthesh crashing out within the opening spherical. Rising Indian girls’s singles shuttler Unnati Hooda progressed to the second spherical with a hard-fought 22-20 21-16 win over Thet Htar Thuzar of Myanmar in a 40 minute contest. Unnati will subsequent tackle thirteenth seed Michelle Li of Canada.