Kidambi Srikanth defeats Lakshya Sen, Sameer Verma, and Anthony Ginting. Kidambi At the French Open Super 750 badminton event that was conducted in Paris on Wednesday. Srikanth emerged triumphant against Lakshya Sen to progress to the second round of the men’s singles competition.
Srikanth Advances in Men’s Singles
This victory allowed Srikanth to proceed to the second round of the men’s singles tournament. Because of this, Srikanth was able to go on to the subsequent round of the tournament.
In the meanwhile, Sameer Verma was able to go on to the subsequent round of the competition as a result of his win against Anthony Sinisuka Ginting of Indonesia. Sameer Verma’s opponent in this match was from Indonesia.
Everyone was taken aback when they learned that Sameer Verma had won the competition.
Srikanth defeated Sen, a younger countryman who was also playing in the event, with scores of 21-18 and 21-18 in the opening round of the competition. The total time of the contest was 46 minutes.
Srikanth finished in second place in the World Championships in 2021, earning him the silver medal. When they faced off against one another, the top two Indians were only getting to know one another for the second time in their careers.
Even though Sen’s opponent prevailed over him in the first game between the two of them in the semifinals of the 2021 World Championships, Sen was still able to come in third place overall in the competition and earn the bronze medal.
After that, Srikanth will play the victor of the first-round match between Rasmus Gemke of Denmark and Nhat Nguyen of Ireland.
Nhat Nguyen Faces Denmark’s Rasmus Gemke
Nhat Nguyen will face Rasmus Gemke of Denmark. Both Rasmus Gemke and Nhat Nguyen are players, however, Rasmus Gemke is from Denmark while Nhat Nguyen is from Ireland.
In a first-round match that lasted one hour and 17 minutes, Verma, who was not seeded, managed to pull off a shock victory by defeating Ginting, who was ranked sixth, 21-15, 21-23, and 22-20.
This match was the first of two matches that Verma played against Ginting. The overall length of time that the match was played was one hour and 17 minutes.
After falling 18-20 in the last game, the Indian performed an incredible comeback to keep the game alive and avoided two match points to keep the game continuing.
This presented Verma with the chance to win the match against Ginting and exact some measure of revenge for the defeat he suffered at the hands of Ginting at the Swiss Open back in March.
In the second round of the tournament, he is scheduled to compete against Kunlavut Vitidsarn, who is originally from Thailand.
HS Prannoy also advanced to the second round of the tournament in the men’s singles category after earning a hard-fought victory against Liew Daren of Malaysia. Liew Daren is from Malaysia.
Prannoy was able to get the win in the match by claiming a 21-16, 16-21, and 21-16 victory against his opponent who had a lesser rating. In his next encounter, Prannoy is scheduled to compete against the Chinese star Lu Guang Zu.
Finishing Line
M R Arjun and Dhruv Kapila of India were knocked out of the men’s doubles competition in the first round after suffering a loss to Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Rian Ardiant of Indonesia by the scores of 15-21, 16-21.
This defeat sent the Indian pair to the elimination bracket for the remainder of the competition. As part of the doubles competition, Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Rian Ardiant, who was seeded fifth, were involved.