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India's Lakshya Sen just one win shy from clinching an Olympic medal
Updated On: 04 August, 2024 07:08 AM IST | Mumbai | Shirish Nadkarni
India’s star shuttler Lakshya Sen will need to perform exceptionally well against Tokyo gold medallist and World No. 2 Viktor Axelsen in today’s semi-final to secure medal in his maiden Olympic campaign
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Lakshya Sen returns to Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Tapei during their quarter-final match on Friday. Pic/Getty Images
Badminton fanatics who witnessed Friday’s men’s singles quarter-final clash between India’s Lakshya Sen and Chinese Taipei’s Chou Tien Chen would have found their cup of joy overflog at the manner in which two implacable gladiators — one, a 22-year-old highly talented, focused and single-minded individual, and the other an equally determined, wily veteran of the court — fought each other for an hour and a quarter, producing pulsating badminton of the highest quality.
Sen’s eventual 19-21, 21-15, 21-12 victory, in spite of his adverse 1-3 record in career meetings with the Taiwanese ace, was as much a result of his superior staying powers as it was of his newly discovered self-belief. The 12-year age advantage that the lad from Almora in Uttarakhand had over the poker-faced Taipei native weighed as much on the scales as the fact that Chou had heroically returned to the courts after a battle with a far more deadly adversary — colo-rectal cancer.
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