Star Indian shuttlers PV Sindhu and Lakshya Sen progressed to the quarterfinals of the women's and men's singles competitions respectively at the Canada Open Super 500 tournament. (More Badminton News)
🌌While Sindhu advanced to the last eight after her opponent Natsuki Nidaira of Japan gave 🍎a her a walkover, Sen notched up a 21-15 21-11 win over Brazil's Ygor Coelho in 31 minutes.
Sindhu will face 2022 Indonesia Masters champion Gao Fang Jie, who 𒊎had played an important role in China's🔥 win at the Asia Mixed Team Championships this year.
Sen, who is a Commonwealth Games🐓 gold medallist, takes on Belgium's Julien Ca✨rraggi.
However, Krishna Prasad Garaga and Vishnuvardhan ⛎Goud Panjala couldn't cross the pre-quarterfinal stage, going down 9-21 11-21 to Indonesian s🎃econd seed and world number 7 Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan.
Sen has been slowly regaining his touch after going through a lean patch early in the season.
On Thursday, Sen faced a tough battle against Coelho, who erased a 0-2 deficit with a four-point burst and then kept it tight🌸. The duo moved neck and 🐈neck till 13-13 when Sen managed to march ahead and sealed the contest after jumping to 20-15 with a five-point burst.
In the second game, Sen hardly had any issues as he galloped to𒅌 12-2 and took giant strides to comfortably seal the match.
