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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.
Lakshya Sen will take on Malaysia's Lee Zii Jia, the defending champion at the semi-finals of the All England Open 2022
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 2:19 PM GMT
Lee is back
Lee Zii Jia is returning every shot that Lakshya attack, huge support from malaysians fans, reduces deficit to 2 points, score Lakshya - Lee 13-11
- 19 March 2022 2:16 PM GMT
Lakshya Sen Leads
Lakshya Sen has 4 point cushion going into mid game intervel, leads 11-7
- 19 March 2022 2:12 PM GMT
Lakshya Sen marches ahead
Lakshya sen defending every shot of Lee Zii jia, speacially lakshya sen has edge on flat exchanges
- 19 March 2022 1:56 PM GMT
Lakshya on court!
Both Laksya Sen and Lee Zii Jia are out on court number 6. The mandatory warmups before we get into it.
- 19 March 2022 1:39 PM GMT
Lakshya Sen v/s Lee Jii Zia
Lakshya is expected to be in action at Court number 6 by 7:30 pm IST. There is a mixed doubles clash ongoing, following which Lakshya will stride out alongside Lee Jii Zia.
- 19 March 2022 1:09 PM GMT
Big Matches!
While Lakshya Sen takes on the defending Champion Lee Zii Jia, the women's doubles duo of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly will be up against China's Zheng Yu and Zhang Shu Xian.
Click here to read our preview for the Semifinals.
- 19 March 2022 12:12 PM GMT
Gooood Eveningggg!
It is a big day for Indian badminton with three youngsters from the country having made it to the semifinals of the prestigious All England Open 2022. Lakshya Sen is the oldest of them all at 20, while the women's doubles duo of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly are just 19 and 18 respectively.
It's been 8 years since an Indian last set foot in an All England Final - Saina Nehwal in 2015, and it would be nothing sort of history if either of Lakshya or Gayatri-Treesa win today.
Stay tuned!
