India’s Chirag Sen registered a comfortable victory over Lim
Su Min of Korea to reach the semifinals of the Badminton Asia Youth U-15
championship in Dongguan, China on Friday.
The Prakash Padukone Academy trainee, who upset fifth seed
Lek U Leong of Macau in the second round, won the quarterfinal 21-16, 21-19 and
hasn’t dropped a game in the competition so far. He will now take on local hope
Chen Jinlin in the semifinals on Saturday.
Later in the day, Chirag also teamed up with Rahul C Yadav
to reach the boys u-15 doubles semifinal after a hard-fought 21-12, 18-21,
21-16 victory over the Korean combination of Byeon Jeong Soo and Lim Su Min.
The Indian combination will now face Malaysia’s Tan Jia Wei
and Ooi Zi Heng for a place in the final.
However, it was not a good day in office for India’s
under-17 girl’s players as Sushant Chippalkatti tournament winner G Ruthvika
Shivani went down to China’s Chen Yufei 21-12, 21-17 in the singles quarterfinals
and then she and Rituparna Das failed to counter the local combination of Li
Yun and Chen Mingchun and lost 12-21, 21-14, 21-19 in the doubles event.
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