New Delhi: Star Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen stunned fifth seed Christo Popov of France in straight games to enter into the second round of the Hylo Open in Germany. While it was merry one of India’s biggest shuttler, it turned out to be misery for the other one as Kidambi Srikanth bowed out of the event.

Sen reached the men’s singles second round of the Super 500 tournament on Wednesday after beating Popov 21-16, 22-20 in the opening round. Sen is a 2021 World Championships bronze medallist who had reached the finals at the Hong Kong Open earlier.

Lakshya is set to next face compatriot S Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian, who got the better of Malaysia’s Jun Hao Leong 21-14, 18-21, 21-16 in a separate opening round match. Meanwhile, Srikanth, who one of the celebrated singles player in the c

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