India’s young badminton player Lakshya Sen made a biggest victory on Sunday by defeating world champion Loh Kean Yew in the final to win the men’s singles title of India Open-2022. have done it. Lakshya won this match 24-22, 21-17. Lakshya is the third Indian male player to win this title. Before him, Prakash Padukone in 1981 and then Kidambi Srikanth in 2015 won the first Super 500 Championship title. Lakshya had sparkled by winning a bronze medal at the World Championships only last year. Now he put this title in his bag.
This match proved to be a repeat telecast of the final of the Dutch Open played last year. Before this match, the record of both the players was 2-2. Lakshya was defeated in two of the last three matches against the Singaporean player. But on Sunday, Lakshya showed a better game. Lakshya played aggressive shots in front of the world champion and won. Lakshya won this match in 54 minutes.
Lakshya controlled the rallies brilliantly and kept Loh under pressure from the start. Lakshya soon took a lead of 16-9. However, Loh seemed to be gaining momentum. Despite all this, Lakshya maintained his control over the game and at one point took a 19-14 lead. Although the world champion made a comeback after this and took the match to the tie-breaker, the Indian player won the game by taking six consecutive points. Lakshya saved two of these game points, one wasted but despite this he remained restrained and then emerged the winner.
Though, the second game was a tough one both the players played long rallies. Loh of Singapore caught the pace and seemed to dominate and that is why Loh was seen making mistakes in an attempt to get maximum points. During this effort, Lakshya continued to hit big cross courts and this never gave Loh a chance to get comfortable. One of these smashes went to the left of the iron and one to the right of the iron. With this, Sen created history by defeating iron.
Sen said after the match, “It was an important first game. I was leading and then the score became 20-20. But I managed to pull off the first game and that gave me a lot of confidence.”
