Lakshya Sen vs Viktor Axelsen Live Score, Paris Olympics 2024 Badminton Men’s Single Semifinal: Follow Lakshya Sen vs Viktor Axelsen match
Lakshya Sen vs Viktor Axelsen, Badminton Paris Olympics 2024 Men’s Single Semifinal Live Updates: Lakshya Sen will play against Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia for the bronze medal at the Paris Olympics after losing 20-22, 14-21 to reigning Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen in the men’s singles semifinals at the Paris Olympics.
Lakshya Sen was imperious in parts of the match against Axelsen. The former World No 1 admitted in the post-match mixed-zone interactions that the Indian was the better player in majority of the game. In fact, Lakshya Sen was on the verge of winning the first game, leading 20-17. But Lakshya Sen dropped three game points to allow the Dane to win the first game 22-20. But Lakshya Sen shrugged off that disappointment fast, surging to a 7-0 lead in the second game. However, the Dane came back once again to win the second game 21-14.
Lakshya Sen has already scripted history after becoming the first Indian individual male shuttler to reach the last four of the Olympics. Now he gets to carve some more, by becoming the first male shuttler from India to win an Olympics medal. So far, only Saina Nehwal (bronze at London 2012) and PV Sindhu (silver in Rio 2016 and bronze in Tokyo 2020) have won Olympic medals for India in badminton.
The 30-year-old Axelsen from Denmark, has won the Tokyo gold and Rio bronze, two world championship titles in 2017 and 2022, a Thomas Cup triumph in 2016 and multiple BWF world tour and Superseries titles to experience a dominating run as world No. 1 from December 2021 to June 2024. Sen, a 2021 World championships bronze medallist, had lost seven times to the Dane before this game while winning just once at the 2022 German Open.
In their eight meetings, only two matches have gone to three games, including the contest in Muelheim an der Ruhr. A win will keep Sen on course for Indian badminton’s maiden Olympic gold, while a loss will give him a shot at the bronze medal in the play-offs.
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Lakshya Sen, the Indian, will need to find himself an ally in the second unseen foe of the great Dane, the defending champion. (AP)
Lakshya Sen, the Indian, will need to find himself an ally in the second unseen foe of the great Dane, the defending champion. That second invisible figure is the shadow of cloying expectations Axelsen’s glorious past casts on his present. A shadow of possible all-time greatness that will stalk him and grow longer, the closer he gets to his second gold. (READ MORE)
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First uploaded on: 04-08-2024 at 14:00 IST
