Lakshya Sen enters the quarterfinals while he was beating the world no. 2 Jonatan Christie – Firstpost

Birmingham: India Lakshya Sen amazed the world no. 2 Jonatan Christie of Indonesia in a superlative exhibition to enter the male quarter -finals of the All England championships here on Thursday.

Lakshya has just taken 36 minutes to beat Christie 21-13 21-10 in a unilateral competition.

The victory reduced Lakshay’s head-to-face record against Christie at 3-4.

It was the first time that Lakshya played Christie, a third of this event, after the Paris Olympic Games.

Lakshya dominated Christie of speech goes into a demonstration of skills.

The Indian used his energy and his superb judicial coverage to feed the Indonesian and ran to a close advance of 11-7 at the break during the first match.

But after the break, Christie tried to make her way in the competition to lock herself on the unrefitted errors of Lakshya to carry it at level 12-12.

Subsequently, Lakshya increased her game while Christie was struggling while India was making his way in the quarter -finals with ease consumed.

Malvika ousted

Even if Lakshya stormed the quarterfinals, the India’s simple female campaign ended with Malvika Bansod losing during the consecutive matches against the double world champion Akane Yamaguchi, Japan, in pre -quarters.

The world no. 3 Yamaguchi barely interrupted to take over on n ° 28 Malvika 21-16 21-13 in a competition that only lasted 33 minutes.

Yamaguchi has now extended his head-to-face record against Malvika at 4-0.

Malvika had trouble adapting to the conditions, hitting severally, long and in the net to late early.

Despite some uncantmade errors, Yamaguchi seized the advantage at the middle of the game interval with a skilful fall shot followed by a specific placement.

The Indian Naveter managed to stay at the time of a time of strike up to 13-15 years, but Yamaguchi quickly jumped forward, winning a series of match points before sealing the opening match while Malvika sent another wide shot.

The Japanese began the second match strongly, taking an advance of 3-1, but Malvika retaliated to level 5-5 scores and later 8-8. However, its inconsistency returned, allowing Yamaguchi to go in the meantime with a comfortable advance.

There was little resistance from Malvika after the end change, while Yamaguchi ran ahead, winning eight match points. She closed the competition with an Smash on her second opportunity.

Earlier Wednesday, the double Olympic PV Sindhu medalist collapsed from the female event in simple.

Satwik-Chirag concedes the match

The seventh seeded Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty conceded their pre-handled match against Hao Nan Xie and Wei Han Zeng of China halfway after the Indian pair followed by 16-21 2-2 due to a past rear injury from Chirag who broke out.

Chirag said the injury broke out after Wednesday’s match, but he just wanted to try.

“I had a pain in yesterday’s match. I’m wearing a certificate last week on my record, but it increased in yesterday’s first game. It was quite unbearable for me to move. We thought we’ll see for the first 10 points, but it was too difficult to play,” he said.

Rangireddy said he had got to know Chirag’s problem just before Thursday’s match, but agreed with his partner’s decision to concede the match. “Difficult times, I felt that we are in a very comfortable position. Even he (Chirag) was trying from the first day but he didn’t tell me, so we were just playing with pain.

“Before the match, he told me and told me that we will see and I haven’t said a problem, this is not the end of life. Maybe not being this year, next year,” said Rankereddy.

India campaign ends with a mixed double

The pair of double Indian doubles of Rohan Kapoor and Ruthvika Shivani Gadde also crashed in the round of 16, losing to the fifth Chinese pair with the head of Zhe Feng Yan and Xin Wei Ya 10-21 12-21.