Olympics 2024 Badminton: Lakshya beats Carraggi in straight games, Tanisha-Ashwini lose - Highlights

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Lakshya Sen beats Julien Carraggi

Lakshya Sen beat Julien Carraggi 21-19, 21-14 in his 'first' Group L match. 

Lakshya's first straight-game win against Kevin Cordon has been 'deleted' due to the latter's withdrawal owing to a left elbow injury. 

Now, both Lakshya and Jonatan Christie have one win each. But unlike Christie, Lakshya beat Carraggi in straight games. 

Lakshya finishes it off in style

Lakshya wins the second game 21-14 as Carraggi goes wide. 

Carraggi saves two match points

Carraggi saves a match point with a body smash. It is 13-20 now. 

Lakshya nets his smash. Carraggi trails 14-20. 

Lakshya on match point

He has eight match points at 20-12. 

Game 2: Lakshya misses the shuttle

A hard-earned point for Carraggi as Lakshya slips and fails to connect the toss. Carraggi trails 11-18. 

Game 2: Lakshya makes an amend with 4 points

Lakshya bounces back with a crosscourt smash, leaving Carraggi on his chest. 

He follows it up with a half-smash. 

Two points for Lakshya as he leads 16-10, now it is 17-10 as he finishes another rally with a big smash. 

Now it is 18-10, as Lakshya wins the rally at the net.

Game 2: Excellent piece of judgement from Carraggi

Carraggi anticipates Lakshya's position very well and sends a perfect length shot to deduces the margin at 10-14.

game 2: Carraggi's body smash

Lakshya goes for a lift and Carraggi sees a chance. He finishes the rally with a smash to trail 9-14. 

Game 2: Lakshya loses a chance to win a point

His smash goes into the net. But no problem, Lakshya wins another point at the net to go 14-8 up.