Top Seeds Lakshya Sen, Aakarshi Kashyap Ousted In Quarterfinals Of National Badminton Championships
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Lakshya Sen and Aakarshi Kashyap were knocked out in the quarterfinals of the ongoing National Badminton Championships in Chennai.
Commonwealth Games gold medallist Lakshya Sen and women's top seed Aakarshi Kashyap were knocked out in the quarterfinals of the ongoing National Badminton Championships in Chennai on Friday. While top seeded Sen began the day with a win over Abhishek Saini 21-23 21-12 24-22 in the pre-quarterfinals, he went down to Bharat Raghav 21-15 10-21 21-17, who had defeated Alap Mishra 21-11 14-21 21-18 in the round of 16. Raghav will be up against fourth seed Tharun M in the semifinal, who beat Varun Kapur after he retired in his pre-quarterfinal clash.
In the other semifinal, Chirag Sen will square off against second seed Kiran George.
While Chirag beat Arya Bhivpathaki, George defeated Mithun M.
In the women's singles, Kashyap was defeated by Tanvi Sharma 21-15 22-20.
Tanvi will now face Isharani Baruah, who beat Shriyanshi Valishetty.
