Lakshya Sen wins 85 minute thriller against Chou Tien Chen with dazzling defensive retrieves to make Aus final | Badminton News
Their Olympic dreams didn’t culminate into a medal. But there’s a whole four years in between two Games when badminton stays terrifically interesting. When the likes of Lakshya Sen and Chou Tien Chen, each more tenacious than the other, turn an ordinary Super 500 Sydney spring semifinal, into something that’s better than absolute cinema. Lakshya Sen turned Live Sport into silverscreen stuff that’s better than once-in-4-years silverware, as he defeated Chou in a 85 minute thriller. He reached the second final of 2025 after Hong Kong, but is still searching for the first title of a very difficult season, where at No 12, he failed to qualify for the World Tour Finals. But that’s where Sen and Chou light up badminton – they make it irresistible to watch, never mind that it’s an end-season competition with little at stake. They even made the mid-set, badminton’s unofficial snack-break for watchers, the crescendo of the match, as the first set and decider were reduced to footnotes. You could talk about the slap-drives in Sen’s 17-21, 24-22, 21-16 …

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