BWF World Championships: Lakshya Sen advances to pre-quarters, Srikanth loses in 2nd round

In the BWF World Championships, reigning Commonwealth champion Lakshya Sen advanced with a straight-game win over Spain's Luis Penalver. On the other hand, last edition's runner-up Kidambi Srikanth suffered a straight game defeat to world number 32 Zhao Jun Peng.

The young Indian badminton ace Sen won his second round contest 21-17 21-10 in a 72 minutes match.

After trailing 3-4, the ninth-seeded Sen grabbed a six-point lead to be 13-7. The Indian continued to stay ahead before comfortably wrapping up the first



game.

Sen then maintained his lead over the Spanish shuttler and won the second game by a bigger margin.

In the second game, the first six points were shared between the two players, but the 21-year-old Indian pulled ahead riding on his superior play.

Enjoying a massive nine-point lead at one stage of the second game, it was only a matter of time before Sen completed the job.

The 34 minutes match between Kidambi and his Chinese counterpart ended with 18-21, 17-21.