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Lakshya Sen vs Lin Chun-Yi Highlights, All England Open Badminton Final 2026: Lakshya goes down fighting 15-21, 20-22 | Badminton News

Lakshya Sen vs Lin Chun-Yi Highlights, All England Open Badminton Final 2026: Lakshya goes down fighting 15-21, 20-22 | Badminton News

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Lakshya Sen vs Lin Chun-Yi, All England Open Badminton Final 2026: Lakshya Sen went down fighting against Chinese Taipei’s Lin Chun-Yi 15-21 20-22 in 57 minutes to finish second at the All England Open for a second time. With the win, Lin Chun Yi became the first shuttler from TPE to win the men’s singles title at All England, and has extended his record to 5-0 against Lakshya. “I think it was a good match today. The first set was… I think he was a better player, but in the second game I could have finished off better. But I’m happy with the way I played throughout the week. Pretty emotional right now, thinking about the match. But overall, lots of positives to take,” Lakshya told BWF later. Story continues below this ad The world No 12 came through a sensational, often gruelling, semifinal clash against Canada’s Victor Lai on Saturday at the prestigious All England Open but that seemed to have compromised him physically. The 24-year-old, who had also reached the summit clash in …

Lakshya troubled by back issues, Satwik-Chirag return with solid win & Aakarshi, Unnati nick one set off Chinese top names

Lakshya troubled by back issues, Satwik-Chirag return with solid win & Aakarshi, Unnati nick one set off Chinese top names

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A persistent lower back issue is making Lakshya Sen’s outings at the top level of competition a stop-start affair. On Wednesday at the Singapore Open Super 750, India’s top men’s singles shuttler was again forced to end his stay after the troublesome back flared up. Playing the turbo-charged Taiwanese Lin Chun-Yi, Sen did well to take the opener 21-15 and even caught up at 17-17 from 12-15 down in the second. But he needed repeated medical treatment requests and simply couldn’t continue leading to yet another Round 1 exit, this time from mid-match retirement. He trailed 21-15,17-21, 13-5 with severely restricted movement. “Lakshya had to retire from his Singapore Open match due to lower back pain and spasm,” father DK Sen told The Indian Express adding it was a recurring problem. “He had similar issues during practice last Saturday. Despite trying his best, he wasn’t fully fit. We’ll focus on his recovery now,” he added. Story continues below this ad FILE: Lakshya Sen in action. (PHOTO: Badminton Association of India) Meanwhile it was a solid …

Lakshya troubled by back issues, Satwik-Chirag return with solid win & Aakarshi, Unnati nick one set off Chinese top names

Lakshya troubled by back issues, Satwik-Chirag return with solid win & Aakarshi, Unnati nick one set off Chinese top names

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A persistent lower back issue is making Lakshya Sen’s outings at the top level of competition a stop-start affair. On Wednesday at the Singapore Open Super 750, India’s top men’s singles shuttler was again forced to end his stay after the troublesome back flared up. Playing the turbo-charged Taiwanese Lin Chun-Yi, Sen did well to take the opener 21-15 and even caught up at 17-17 from 12-15 down in the second. But he needed repeated medical treatment requests and simply couldn’t continue leading to yet another Round 1 exit, this time from mid-match retirement. He trailed 21-15,17-21, 13-5 with severely restricted movement. “Lakshya had to retire from his Singapore Open match due to lower back pain and spasm,” father DK Sen told The Indian Express adding it was a recurring problem. “He had similar issues during practice last Saturday. Despite trying his best, he wasn’t fully fit. We’ll focus on his recovery now,” he added. Story continues below this ad FILE: Lakshya Sen in action. (PHOTO: Badminton Association of India) Meanwhile it was a solid …

All England: Have the rattling hand-fans permanently replaced the inflate clappers as cheering props for dinning | Badminton News

All England: Have the rattling hand-fans permanently replaced the inflate clappers as cheering props for dinning | Badminton News

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No badminton tournament was complete without the plastic clappers that came free with match tickets for badminton events and were left on the seat to create one right din. The origins are debated – some believed the inflated tubes that were clapped together for a drumming noise came from Koreans, others reckoned it was Japanese. They were inseparable from badminton though. But the last few years have seen the clappers entirely replaced by handfans that double up as rattlers. Spectators at the All England have been flapping the rattler fans that register a clack-clack-clack cheer which don’t quite sound unlike actual clapping. The paper hand-fans are heavier than the usual intricate flaps common to older east Asian and Victorian cultures, but can be used for the basic role of cooling faces off sweat beads. Most spectators used it like a rattle but there were a few who kept tapping them on opposite wrists. Story continues below this ad The inflated clappers,made of plastic and not very environmentally conscious, seemed to have completely disappeared. The All …

All England Open Badminton Championships: Lakshya, Treesa-Gayatri bow out

All England Open Badminton Championships: Lakshya, Treesa-Gayatri bow out

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A flick of a switch could turn a merry happy-Holi day into a wretched one, and it was the inevitability of power and strength from Chinese shuttlers that brought two decimations inside two hours. First, Lakshya Sen continued the trend of an underwhelming show in big matches, as Li Shifeng whom he’s beaten previously with steady plans, punctured his dreams of a third All England semi-final with a 21-10, 21-16 loss. Then Treesa Jolly-Gayatri Gopichand couldn’t escape the peppering that Liu Sheng Shu and Tan Ning routinely subject the opponents to, in a 21-14, 21-10 win. While the Treesa-Gayatri result wasn’t shocking given how Liu-Tan are viewed as a pair that will change the basic ethos of women’s doubles through their power-game, the Sen result was worrying as he was neither nursing serious niggles, nor in poor form. Both 21-10 scorelines will furrow brows. But Sen simply couldn’t stem the flow of errors as he failed to read the arena and the lengths he was expected to strike while going for the backline. Shifeng is …

How Lakshya Sen upstaged defending champion Jonatan Christie

How Lakshya Sen upstaged defending champion Jonatan Christie

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At 6-6 in the second game, Lakshya Sen had just been engaged in a 29-shot rally by Jonatan Christie. After having won the opening game comfortably, and taking an early lead in the second game, Lakshya saw Christie cut down the gap and catch up with him. The defending champion from Indonesia tends to go on a roll when he finds his rhythm, so it was a critical moment for Lakshya to respond. And he put forth some response. From 6-6, Lakshya went on a stunning run of 11 out of the next 12 points, shutting Christie out completely and closing out a straight-game win. Sometimes they say the scoreboard doesn’t reflect the story but Lakshya’s 21-13, 21-10 win against the world No 2 in just 36 minutes was a just reflection of the Indian’s domination. In a match of many highlight reel-worthy moments from Lakshya, one stood out. At 10-6 in Game 2, Christie played a gentle punch clear to the backcourt as Lakshya returned a tight net shot. As he was backpedaling, Lakshya …

Who is Minoru Yoneyama after whom one court at All England is always named?

Who is Minoru Yoneyama after whom one court at All England is always named?

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One court at the All England in Birmingham is always named after Minoru Yoneyama, founder of the equipment major, Yonex, who passed away in 2019 at age 95, after setting up a thriving badminton racquets and shuttles business. His story arc gets remembered each year at the hallowed All England. His History The 1924-born from Niigata is said to have served in the Imperial Army during the terrible World War 2, and according to Nikkei Asian Review belonged to a ‘suicide unit tasked with ramming boats filled with explosives into American ships’. However, he was imprisoned before heading out on any mission, and endured confinement at the notorious Okinawa camp. After his release in 1946, he started making wooden floats for recreational fishing. A meticulous master of woodwork, Yoneyama suffered business collapses as plastic floats flooded markets, before starting to make badminton racquets in 1957. ‘Frustrated by being pushed aside by advancing technology, he vowed to never be technologically left behind and committed to constant innovation,’ Yonex writes. Yoneyama’s growth Story continues below this ad …

Indian badminton needs a deep run to shake off recent sense of despair

Indian badminton needs a deep run to shake off recent sense of despair

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Two All England finals featuring Indians, and no titles, in the last 15 years – considered high-achieving for the sport – will go down as a serious inexplicable anomaly for badminton. One can spin it whichever way one likes – cynically, by saying that the All England is nothing special anymore, though nobody else in the badminton world believes that. Or that none of the Indians could quite time their peaks or work monkishly towards it like Prakash Padukone or Pullela Gopichand, did. But as yet another edition kicks off at Birmingham, it will remain a gaping hole in career summaries and a large unticked box for some of the biggest names in Indian badminton. It’s nearing a quarter of a century since Gopichand won the last one in 2001, when almost a fourth of present-day India wasn’t even born. So one can hardly blame the present-day stars for not setting too much store on it. The All England itself ceased being the most prestigious event in badminton once the sport debuted at the Olympics …

Lakshya Sen has a better yo-yo test score than Virat Kohli’s, but that is just half his comeback story | Badminton News

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Lakshya Sen was returning from the US Open last April, but was so beat up and knackered from two weeks of tournament play, that he struggled to lug his own kitbag through the airport on his slouching, hurting shoulders. His close team of coaches, trainers and family knew he was a terribly broken piece. Almost a year on, Sen has made semifinals in back-to-back weeks at Paris and the All England and almost secured the Olympics quota. He hardly had any taping around his knee or shoulders, just some protective tape on the back. He’s flying like before in defense, but more importantly landing stably and has a jump and hit that’s fairly effective late in the third set. In May of 2023, a month after the slumping trudge from the airport, he started on ‘shock training.’ The ‘shock’ is just 6 jumps, twice a week — only what’s needed for his sport, and he was initiated into them after he was at an advanced stage of strength conditioning. First employed by the legendary biomechanist …

All England Badminton Semi-Finals Live Score: Can Lakshya Sen overcome Jonatan Christie and make it to the final? | Badminton News

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All England Open Badminton Semi-Finals Live Score: Lakshya Sen will face Jonatan Christie in the semifinal of the All England Open Badminton on Saturday after defeating Malaysian Lee Zii Jia in three games in the quarter-final. Lakshya has made it to the final once in the past at the prestigious All England Championships was a finalist at the prestigious All England championships last year. After losing the first game 20-22 in the quarterfinal, he won the second game 21-16 and claimed the third game 21-19 to wrap up the 71-minute encounter. The Malaysian had claimed the first game 22-20 after 23 minutes of fast-paced badminton. The Indian had held leads in the mid-game intervals of both games against Malaysia’s Lee. Lakshya was trailing 2-8 against World No 4 Anders Antonsen in the deciding third game in Birmingham on Thursday, before overcoming the fourth seed from Denmark 20-22, 21-13, 21-11 in a 78-minute thriller. The 21-year-old Lakshya won men’s singles gold at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham but has since been searching for form after nasal …