Star Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen overcame early jitters to prevail over Collins Valentine Filimon of Austria within the BWF Badminton World Championships 2026 whereas doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand shocked sixteenth seeds Lauren Lam and Allison Quynh Lee.
IMAGE: Lakshya Sen beat Collins Valentine Filimon of Austria in his first spherical match on the BWF Badminton World Championships 2026. {Photograph}: BAI
Key Factors
- Lakshya Sen overcame a first-game loss to defeat Collins Valentine Filimon in his opening match.
- Sen will subsequent play the US’ Garret Tan, who defeated Switzerland’s Tobias Kuenzi.
- The unseeded Indian girls’s doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand surprised sixteenth seeds Lauren Lam and Allison Quynh Lee in straight video games.
India’s Lakshya Sen recovered from a sluggish begin to beat Collins Valentine Filimon of Austria in his first spherical match on the BWF Badminton World Championships 2026 in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Sen registered a hard-fought 16-21, 21-8, 21-4 victory in a 45-minute match to advance to the second spherical.
Sen’s Excellent Comeback
Within the subsequent spherical, Sen will play Garret Tan of the US, after he registered a simple 21-4, 21-15 victory in opposition to Tobas Kuenzi of Switzerland within the opening spherical.
Sen struggled at the beginning as Filimon gained six straight factors to take a decisive 17-12 lead earlier than he closed out the primary recreation 21-16.
Within the second recreation, each shuttlers had been locked at 7-7 earlier than the Indian pulled up his socks to take a 11-8 lead together with his attacking recreation.
He then used his expertise and reeled off 10 straight factors, giving no room to his opponent, who appeared to have misplaced the steam.
There was no stopping Sen from there on as he stored up his aggressive recreation, forcing quite a few unforced errors from Filimon to take the higher hand within the match at 15-1 after which seal the competition with consummate ease.
Jolly-Gopichand Stun sixteenth Seeds
IMAGE: Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand in motion. {Photograph}: BAI
Earlier, the unseeded Indian pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand surprised sixteenth seeds Lauren Lam and Allison Quynh Lee of the USA in straight video games. Treesa and Gayatri took simply 38 minutes to beat their fancied opponents 21-15, 21-12 and progress to the following 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.
IMAGE: Unnati Hooda had it simple in opposition to Thet Htar Thuzar of Myanmar. {Photograph}: BAI
Blended Doubles Disappointment
India witnessed a disastrous outing within the blended doubles occasion with the pairs of Rohan Kapoor and Ruthvika Shivani Gadde, and Ashith Surya and Amrutha Pramuthesh crashing out within the opening spherical.
Whereas the Kapoor-Gadde duo fought onerous earlier than shedding 22-20 19-21 17-21 in opposition to Canada’s Jonathan Bing Tsan Lai and Crystal Lai, Surya and Pramuthesh too fought onerous earlier than bowing down 21-16, 29-30, 22-24 in opposition to Turkey’s Emre Sonmez and Yasemen Bektas.
