World Championships bronze medallist shuttler Lakshya Sen moved into the second round with an easy straight-game win over Denmark’s Magnus Johannesen at the All England Championships here on Wednesday.
The 22-year-old brushed aside the Dane 21-14, 21-15 in 40 minutes in the men’s singles opening round contest.
In the Round-of-16, he will meet another Danish opponent in fourth seed Anders Antonsen.
The women’s doubles pair of Tanish Crasto and Ashiwini Ponnappa also progressed to the Round-of-16 with a comfortable 21-13, 21-18 win over Hong Kong’s Yeung Nga Ting and Yeung Pui Lam.
The unseeded Indian duo will take on the fifth-seeded Chinese duo of Zhang Shuxian and Zheng Yu in the pre-quarterfinals.
However, it was curtains for young Priyanshu Rajawat, who lost a hard-fought men’s singles contest to Chico Aura Dwi Wardoyo. Rajawat went down 19-21 21-1 9-21.
On Tuesday, double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu progressed to the second round in women’s singles competition but HS Prannoy and Kidambi Srikanth faltered in the opening hurdle of men’s singles.
World No. 11 Sindhu, a former world champion, won the first game 21-10 but her German opponent, world No. 26 Li Yvonne Li, then decided to retire, paving the way for the Indian to the next round.
PTI
