Sensational Feeling!

World championship bronze medallist Lakshya Sen entered his maiden World Tour Super 500 summit clash on Saturday with a comefrombehind win over Malaysiarsquos Ng Tze Yong at the YonexSunrise India Open hereThird seed Sen ranked 17 in the world will face reigning world champion Loh Kean Yew of Singapore in the summit clash on Sunday in a repeat of Dutch Open final last yearThe 20yearold from Almora who had joined his mentor Prakash Padukone B Sai Praneeth and Kidambi Srikanth as a medallist at the World championships last month notched up a 1921 2116 2112 win over the World No60 Yong in a thrilling semifinal clashldquoIt is a good feeling to play my first Super 500 final at my home country The first game was pretty close I did some errors which cost me But I kept my calm in the second and third game and managed to pull outrdquo Sen said after the matchLoh seeded fifth was given a walkover in the other semifinals by Canadarsquos Brian Yang after developing a sore throat and headache Sen will be itching to set the record straight after losing the Dutch Open final to Loh Overall the duo has a 22 headtohead record with Sen losing two of the last three meetingslsquoExcited about finalrsquoldquoBoth of us are playing well it will be a good match tomorrow and I am really looking forward to playing himrdquo Sen said about his final clashHowever there was disappointment in store in womenrsquos singles as top seed and home favourite Sindhu lost 1421 2113 1021 to sixth seeded Thai Supanida KatethongldquoI gave her a huge lead from the beginning In the third game after it was 66 I should have taken a few points but she continued to lead She is a good player I played at Bali against her her strokes are deceptive I should have controlled the shuttles It was just not my day and she played well I have to work on my mistakesrdquo Sindhu said after the matchChiragSatwik enter finalIn the menrsquos doubles World No10 pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy cruised to a 2110 2118 win over France duo of William Villeger and Fabien Delrue to make it to the finals Chirag and Satwik will square off against threetime world champion Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan from Indonesia on SundayYoung Aakarshi Kashyap too had a golden chance but she squandered five game points in the opening game to allow Busanan Ongbamrungphan register a 2624 219 win in the other womenrsquos singles semisThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever