Youthful Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen advanced to his lady quarterfinals at the renowned All England Championships however it was draperies for comrade HS Prannoy after he went down in straight games in the men's singles second round here on Thursday.
The 19-year-old Lakshya from Almora, who had asserted five titles in 2019, saw off France's Thomas Rouxel 21-18 21-16.
Lakshya, who had asserted the Asian Junior Championships title, the World Junior titles bronze and Youth Olympics Games silver in 2018, will next face either Ireland's Nhat Nguyen or Netherland's Mark Caljouw.
Prannoy, a previous top 10 player, in any case, couldn't discover his way across world No. 1 Kento Momota, the Japanese playing his first occasion since a terrible mishap that saw him go through an eye a medical procedure a year ago.
The Indian lost 15-21 14-21 out of a 48-minute match to withdraw from the opposition.
Additionally expelled from the competition was the blended copies pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa, who lost 19-21 9-21 to Japanese couple of Yuki Kaneko and Misaki Matsutomo in the opening round.
On Wednesday night, Prannoy alongside Lakshya, Olympic cheerful B Sai Praneeth and Sameer Verma had entered the second round yet previous world No. 1 Saina Nehwal had to yield her initial ladies' singles match in the wake of enduring a physical issue.
Saina, who completed second best here in 2015, glanced in uneasiness with her correct thigh and chose to resign subsequent to falling behind (8-21 4-10) in her opening round match against seventh seed Mia Blichfeldt of Denmark.
In the men's singles, world No. 15 Praneeth had beaten France's Toma Junior Popov 21-18 22-20, while Prannoy neglected Malaysia's Daren Liew 21-10 21-10.
Sameer outlived Brazil's Ygor Coelho 21-11 21-19, while Lakshya had dazed Thailand's reality No. 18 Kantaphon Wangcharoen 21-18 21-12.
In the blended pairs, Pranaav Jerry Chopra and N Sikki Reddy went down 15-21 17-21 to Denmark's Rasmus Espersen and Christine Busch in the opening round.
Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu will likewise be found in real life later in the day against Denmark's Line Christophersen.
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