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All England Open 2022 Semi-finals Highlights: Lakshya Sen reaches finals in a nail-biter — Scores, Updates, Blog
On semi-finals day at the All England Open 2022, Lakshya Sen saw off Lee Zii Jia to enter finals while Gayatri/Treesa will face off against a Chinese pair later. Follow LIVE.
Welcome to the live blog of The Bridge from the semi-finals of the All England Badminton Open 2022
Lakshya Sen created history by causing yet another big upset as he battled past the defending All England Champion, Lee Zii Jia in a thriller to become the first Indian man to reach a singles final in 21 years. Lakshya won 21-13, 12-21, 21-19!
Meanwhile, the underdog pair of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly, who showed great spunk in the tournament, took on China's Zhang/Zheng in the semi-finals but lost out closely, 21-17, 21-16.
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Live Updates
- 19 March 2022 3:18 PM GMT
Lakshya WINS Match
Lakshya Sen wins in second match point and is in Final of All England Championships. Lakshya Sen come from behind from score 16-18 to 20-18 , after missing first match point to close line call, he showed brilliant character to win match agasint very good player Lee Zii Jia
- 19 March 2022 3:10 PM GMT
Lee Advantage
Lee is playing patience wait game and not making any errors, score third game Lee - Lakshya 16-12
- 19 March 2022 3:06 PM GMT
Lee Leads
Lee now comfotably leads 14-10 in third game with net spinning shot in his favour
- 19 March 2022 3:04 PM GMT
Lee Mid Game Advantage
Lee Zii Jia goes into mid game interval with two point advantage, will this lead be crucial? score third game Lee - Lakshya 11-9
- 19 March 2022 3:00 PM GMT
Lakshya Sen Leads
Lakshya Sen with quick returns and neutrlising fast pace attack of Lee Zii Jia, score third game 9-8
- 19 March 2022 2:58 PM GMT
Lee Advantage
Lakshya is on better side of court drift wise, he need to pick up before the mid game interval, score third game Lakshya - Lee 7-8
- 19 March 2022 2:54 PM GMT
Lakshya - Lee Equal
Rallies are getti ng longer and longer, no player is ready to give an inch,score third game 3-3