Lakshya Sen missed bronze, still lost to Malaysian player

Lakshya Sen had to face defeat in the bronze medal match. The Indian shuttler won the first game 21-13. After this, in the second game, at one point Lakshya took a lead of 8-2. However, after this the Malaysian player made a tremendous comeback and after taking a lead of 11-8, won the second game 21-16.

After this, in the third and decisive game, Lee Jia completely dominated and won 21-11. Along with the match, he also won the bronze medal. Lakshya made many unforced errors in the match and gave the Malaysian player a chance to hit smash after smash. Lakshya missed to get his name registered in the history books. Earlier, Lakshya had to face defeat at the hands of Victor Axelsen in the semi-finals.

Before that, Lakshya had won five consecutive matches. He defeated Kevin Cordon of Guatemala 21-8, 22-20 in his first match during the group stage. However, the result of this match was deleted and the match was declared cancelled. After this, Lakshya defeated Julien Karagi of Belgium 21-19, 21-14. To get out of the group stage and reach the Round of 16, Lakshya defeated Jonatan Christie of Indonesia in his last group match. The Indian shuttler lived up to the expectations and defeated world number three Christie 21-18, 21-12.