Top Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen made a shocking exit from the BWF World Tour Super 300 event, after losing 19-21, 16-21 to Frenchman Christo Popov in 45 minutes.
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India’s campaign at the Yonex German Open 2023 ended on Wednesday as all four singles players lost in the first round in Mulheim, Germany. Top Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen made a shocking exit from the BWF World Tour Super 300 event, after losing 19-21, 16-21 to Frenchman Christo Popov in 45 minutes. National champion Mithun Manjunath fought hard but lost his men’s singles first round clash against Singapore’s fourth seeded Loh Kean Yew 8-21, 21-19, 11-21. Later in the day, Malavika Bansod fell 13-21, 14-21 to fifth-seeded Chinese player Wang Zhi Yi.
End of #GermanOpen2023 campaign for 🇮🇳 shuttlers.
⏭️: #AllEngland2023 from March 14#Badminton pic.twitter.com/pI31KcbeIB
— BAI Media (@BAI_Media) March 8, 2023
Teenager Tasnim Mir, who reached the main draw after beating Ireland’s Rachael Darragh in the qualifying round, suffered an 8-21, 10-21 defeat against eighth-seeded shuttler from Thailand Pornpawee Chochuwong in 25 minutes in the women’s singles category. The mixed doubles pair of Ashwini Ponappa and B. Sumeeth Reddy had lost 10-21, 12-21 to the Scottish duo of Julie Macpherson and Adam Hall in their opening round fixture while junior world championships silver medalist Sankar Muthuswamy failed to win his qualifying round match on Tuesday.
| Fixtures |
| Lee Zii Jia vs Chia Hao Lee |
| Christo Popov vs Lee Cheuk Yiu |
| NG Ka Long Angus vs Luis Enrique Penalver |
| Lu Guang Zu vs Kanta Tsuneyama |
| Brian Yang vs Kento Momota |
| Kenta Nishimoto vs Loh Kean Yew |
| Lin Chun-Yi vs Zhao Jun Peng |
| HansKristian Solberg Vittinghus vs Li Shi Feng |
| Fixtures |
| Akane Yamaguchi vs Zhang Yi Man |
| Wang Zhi Yi vs Yvonne Li |
| Chen Yu Fei vs Qi Xuefei |
| Pornpawee Chochuwong vs Goh Jin Wei |
| wen Yu Zhang vs Wen Che Hsu |
| Saena Kawakami vs He Bing Jiao |
| Kim Ga Eun vs Supanida Katethong |
| Sung Shuo Yun vs An Se Young |
| Fixtures |
| Aaron Chia/ Soh Wooi Yik vs Akira Koga/ Taichi Saito |
| Mark Lamsfuss/ Marvin Seidel vs Jeppe Bay/ Lasse Molhede |
| Kim Astrup/ Anders Rasmussen vs Kim Gi Jung/ Kim Sa Rang |
| Choi Soi Gyu/ Kim Won Ho vs Rasmus Kjaer/ Frederik Sogaard |
| Lucas Corvee/ Ronan Labar vs Chang Ko-Chi/ Wang Chi-Lin |
| Tan Kian Meng/ Tan Wee Kiong vs Kang Min Hyuk/ Seo Seung Jae |
| Lee Jhe-Huei/ Yang Po-Hsuan vs Ong Yew Sin/ Teo ee Ti |
| Ondrej Kral/ Adam Mendrek vs Takuro Hoki/ Yugo Kobayashi |
| Fixtures |
| Nami Matsuyama/ Chiharu Shida vs Stine Kuespert/ Emma Moszczynski |
| Yuki Fukushima/ Sayaka Hirota vs Rui Hirokami/ Yuna Kato |
| Tan Pearly/ Thinaah Muralitharan vs Julie Macpherson/ Clara Torrance |
| Mayu Matsumoto/ Wakana Nagahara vs Yeung Nga Ting/ Yeung Pui Lam |
| Rin Iwanaga/ Kie Nakanishi vs Gabriela Stoeva/ Stefani Stoeva |
| Chloe Birch/ Lauren Smith vs Kim So Yeong/ Kong Hee Yong |
| Ng Tsz Yau/ Tsang Hiu Yan vs Baek Ha Na/ Lee So Hee |
| Du Yue/ Xia Yu Ting vs Jeong Na Eun/ Kim Hye Jeong |
| Fixtures |
| Yuta Watanabe/ Arisa Higashino vs Kim Won Ho/ Jeong Na Eun |
| Seo Seung Jae/ Chae Yu Jung vs Chen Tang Jie/ Toh Ee Wei |
| Dejan Ferdinansyah/ Gloria Widjaja vs Lee Reginald/ Ng Tsz Yau |
| Tang Chun Man/ Tsu Ying Suet vs Kyohei Yamashita/ Naru Shinoya |
| Praveen Jordan/ Melati Oktavianti vs Feng Yan Zhe/ Huang Dong Pong |
| Yang Po-Hsuan/ Hu Ling Fang vs Mark Lamsfuss/ Isabel Lohau |
| Hiroki Midorikawa/ Natsu Saito vs Yuki Kaneko/ Misaki Matsutomo |
| dam Hall/ Julie Macpherson vs Thom Gicquel/ Delphine Delrue |
The 2023 German Open Badminton Championship will commence on March 07 and end on March 12.
The matches can be watched live on BWF’s official Youtube channel BWFTV.
