India’s Lakshya Sen suffered a straight-game loss to high seed Kento Momota of Japan within the first spherical of the Indonesia Open Super 1000 right here on Tuesday.
The 21-year-old from Almora, who misplaced in straight video games to Momota in Round 16 final week, went all the way down to Japan 21-23, 15-21 to the two-time world champion in 53 minutes.
In one other males’s singles match, Parupalli Kashyap crashed out of the competitors after dropping 11-21 14-21 to Loh Keen Yew of Singapore.
Men’s doubles pair of MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila went down 20-22, 13-21 to Korea’s Choi Seolgyu and Kim Wonho within the opening spherical.
Venkat Gaurav Prasad and Juhi Devangan additionally had a disappointing day as they misplaced 12-21, 4-21 to German pair of Jons Ralfie Jansen and Linda Effler.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
