HO CHI MINH CITY: India shuttler Sourabh Verma booked his place within the men’s singles final of the ongoing Vietnam Open BWF Tour Super 100 tournament after registering a direct-game victory over Japan’s Minoru Koga on Saturday.
The 2nd-seeded Indian defeated Koga 22-20, 21-15 in the semi-very last conflict, which lasted for fifty-one minutes.
Sourabh, who hasn’t lost a game en route to the finals of the continued opposition, is given stiff combat by his Japanese opponent during the match. However, World No. 38 came up with a gritty overall performance in both the video games and emerged victorious.
After getting a bye within the first spherical, Verma — who’s the lone Indian in the opposition — outlasted Japan’s Kodai Naraoka 22-20, 22-20 in a tight 2d-spherical conflict. Nagaoka’s compatriot, Yu Igarashi, then posed a stern test to Verma in which the Indian came out with flying colors. A grueling 25-23, 24-22 victory sealed the deal for Verma and put him in the region finals.
Lakshya Sen enters final of Belgian International LEUVEN (BELGIUM): Rising Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen stormed into the men’s singles finals of the Belgian International Challenge with an immediate comeback win over Denmark’s Kim Bruun here. And the remaining eight in shape against domestic favorite Tien Minh Nguyen turned out to be the very best for him as he cruised to a 21-13, 21-18 victory on Friday. He will now face Sun Fei Xiang of China — who went past Lin Yu Hsien 21-17, 21-16 – in the very last on Sunday.
The 18-year-vintage from Almora notched up a comfortable 21-18, 21-eleven win over Bruun in a forty-eight-minute semifinal clash on Friday night. Lakshya, the Asian Junior champion, will face 2d seed Victor Svendsen of Denmark in the finals. The semifinal clash became a near affair to start with, Lakshya and Bruun replacing leads often before the Danish shuttler jumped to an eleven-nine benefit on the smash.
Laksha came out with all cylinders blazing in the 2d sport to leap to a 6-2 lead early on, after which they reeled off 5 points instantly to seize an eleven-three lead at the breather. However, Lakshya erased the deficit after the C programming language and constructed on a narrow thirteen-12 result in slowly circulating beforehand and sooner or later pocketed the outlet sport easily. The Indians produced another burst of 5 straight points to create a large hole that Bruun did not bridge.
