All England Badminton Championship 2023: Thrillers for starters

Updated On: 15 March, 2023 09:46 AM IST | Birmingham | PTI

Indian shuttlers HS Prannoy, Lakshya Sen win hard-fought Round One encounters to begin All England Championships on positive note

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HS Prannoy returns to Chinese Taipei’s Tzu Wei Wang at Birmingham yesterday. Pic/Getty Images (right) Lakshya Sen

Lakshya Sen and HS Prannoy produced superlative performances to progress to the second round of the All England Championships with hard-fought straight-game wins in the men’s singles competition here on Tuesday. In a high intensity match, Sen moved with speed and mounted a pinpoint attack on the lines to outwit fifth seeded Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei 21-18, 21-19 in 48 minutes. The 21-year-old from Almora, who had reached the final in the last edition, thus claimed his first win over the World No. 5 after losing twice in three meetings.

Anxious moments

Earlier, World No. 9 Prannoy survived some anxious moments before prevailing 21-19, 22-20 against Tzu Wei Wang in his 49-minute opening round clash to take his overall tally to 5-3 over the Taiwanese. The match between Chou and Sen expectedly turned out to be high pace contest. Chou took a 3-1 lead but Sen clawed back to lead 7-6 after playing some short rallies. The Indian led 11-8 at the mid-game interval.

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