Badminton World Championships Day 2 Highlights: Lakshya Sen, Treesa Jolly-Gayatri Gopichand Emerge Victorious
Badminton World Championships 2026 Day 2 Highlights: Lakshya Sen overcame early jitters to prevail over Collins Valentine Filimon of Bulgaria in three games to progress to the second round of the men's singles event at the BWF World Championships.
Badminton World Championships 2026 Day 2 Highlights: Lakshya Sen overcame early jitters to prevail over Collins Valentine Filimon of Bulgaria in three games to progress to the second round of the men's singles event at the BWF World Championships. Sen registered a 16-21 21-8 21-4 win over Filimon in his opener that lasted 45 minutes. Sen will next play the US' Garret Tan, who defeated Switzerland's Tobias Kuenzi 21-4 21-15. The unseeded Indian pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand stunned 16th seeds Lauren Lam and Allison Quynh Lee of the United States in straight games to sail into the pre-quarterfinals of the women's doubles event. Treesa and Gayatri took just 38 minutes to beat their fancied opponents 21-15 21-12 and progress to the next round. India witnessed a disastrous outing in the mixed doubles event with the pairs of Rohan Kapoor and Ruthvika Shivani Gadde, and Ashith Surya and Amrutha Pramuthesh crashing out in the opening round. Rising Indian women's singles shuttler Unnati Hooda progressed to the second round with a hard-fought 22-20 21-16 win over Thet Htar Thuzar of Myanmar in a 40 minute contest. Unnati will next take on 13th seed Michelle Li of Canada.Â
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