{"id":23013,"date":"2022-01-16T20:01:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T14:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=181801"},"modified":"2022-01-16T20:57:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T15:27:07","slug":"india-open-lakshya-sen-stuns-world-champion-loh-kean-yew-to-win-the-mens-singles-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/badminton\/india-open-lakshya-sen-stuns-world-champion-loh-kean-yew-to-win-the-mens-singles-title\/","title":{"rendered":"India Open: Lakshya Sen stuns world champion Loh Kean Yew to win the men\u2019s singles title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>20 years old Lakshya Sen of Almora, Uttarakhand thwarted reigning world champion, Loh Kean Yew of Singapore in straight games and bagged the men\u2019s singles title at Yonex-Sunrise India Open.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Take a bow for the Men\u2019s Singles champions! \ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd47: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lakshya_sen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@lakshya_sen<\/a> <br \/>\ud83e\udd48: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reallohkeanyew?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@reallohkeanyew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/YonexSunriseIndiaOpen2022?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#YonexSunriseIndiaOpen2022<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IndiaKaregaSmash?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IndiaKaregaSmash<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Badminton?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Badminton<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iM9wkpiDLD\">pic.twitter.com\/iM9wkpiDLD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BAI Media (@BAI_Media) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BAI_Media\/status\/1482708613223567360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The player, who belongs to a badminton family where his father D.K Sen is a coach and his brother is also into professional badminton at international levels had defeated Ng Tze Yong of Malaysia in the men\u2019s category to reach his first Super 500 final of his career while two-times Olympic champion PV Sindhu suffered a loss at the tournament\u2019s semifinal respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Lakshya had achieved World No. One position by BWF World Junior rankings at the junior singles in the year of 2017. He has grabbed a silver medal at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics boy\u2019s singles tournament as well as powered his team \u201cAlpha\u201d to bag a gold medal in the mixed category.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the men\u2019s doubles category at India Open, pair of Satwik SaiRaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty won the title at the KD Jadhav stadium defeating the pair of Indonesia Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan in straight sets of 21-16, 26-24. The duo fought 43 minutes at the final to confirm the final trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s Busanan Ongbamrunghphan bagged the Women\u2019s Singles title while the pairing of Thailand Fourth-seeded Benyapa and Nuntakarn Aimsaard won the women\u2019s doubles title at the BWF India Open on Sunday in New Delhi within 35 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the semifinal of the tournament, the 20-year-old had defeated Malaysian opponent Ng Tze Yong to reach his first Super 500 maiden final. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":43161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2960,1337],"class_list":["post-23013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-badminton","tag-lakshya-sen","tag-pv-sindhu"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}