Rising Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen made a successful comeback to competitive badminton. He defeated Christo Popov in straight games in the opening round of USD 750,000 Denmark Open which restarted after the long wait of 7-months due to the corona pandemic.

The 19-year-old Lakshya, who claimed five titles including two Super 100 tournaments last year, given a great performance to defeat Popov by 21-9 21-15 to reach the second round. Talking about the performance in the tournament, Lakshya, who is currently ranked world no.27 said, “I moved quite well, that was the key. In the second game he had a lead but I had made a few mistakes. I was able to cut down on them and find my rhythm."  The young star is playing almost after seven months due to corona pandemic. Sharing his experience of playing after a long time he said that he is very happy to be playing again after seven months and it felt very normal to him on the court.

Lakshya will compete with the winner of the match between Denmark’s Hans-Kristian Solberg Vittinghus and Belgium’s Maxime Moreels. Denmark Open Super 750 event is the only event going to be played this year with BWF forced to cancel multiple events and postpone the Asia leg and World Tour Final next year.

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