Lakshya Sen Wins Badminton Gold In CWG Debut

 Lakshya won his maiden World Championships medal – a bronze in Huelva in 2021, while he finished runner-up at the prestigious All England Championships earlier this year.

After PV Sindhu’s win in the women’s singles gold medal at the Commonwealth Games 2022, on Monday, 20-year-old Lakshya Sen scripted an incredible comeback against in-form Ng Tze Yong of Malaysia to win a Gold in men’s singles badminton in his first ever appearance at the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham.

The Indian Badminton ace lost the opening game 19-21 after a hard-fought battle against lower-ranked Ng Tze Yong of Malaysia however, he fought back to win a memorable Gold for India on the final day of the Birmingham Games.

The 20-year-old was trailing 8-9 in the second game but stitched a run of 13 straight points to force a decider which he won as he rode on the momentum to script a stunning victory in the final that stretched to more than an hour. The Indian shuttler won the fiercely-fought men’s singles final 19-21, 21-9, 21-16.

Ng Tze Yong defeated the reigning world champion, Loh Kean Yew, in the quarter-finals, and world’s silver medalist Kidambi Srikanth in the semi-final but was not able to get past the bronze medalist from Huelva.

Lakshya won his maiden World Championships medal – a bronze in Huelva in 2021, while he finished runner-up at the prestigious All England Championships earlier this year.

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