NEW DELHI: Ace shuttler Lakshya Sen on Tuesday advanced to the second round of Indonesia Open Super 1000 tournament in Jakarta.
Lakshya secured a comfortable 21-12, 21-17 win over Japan's Kanta Tsuneyama in just 40 minutes.
Lakshya, who qualified for the Olympics after reaching the semifinals at the French Open and All England Championships, will face the winner of the match between Indonesia's seventh seed Anthony Sinisuka Ginting and Japan's Kenta Nishimoto in the next round.
In other matches, Kiran George put up a valiant effort against China's Hong Yang Weng but ultimately lost 21-11, 10-21, 20-22 in the men's singles event.
The Indian mixed doubles pair of B Sumeeth Reddy and Sikki Reddy had to work hard to overcome the American duo of Vinson Chiu and Jennie Gai, winning 18-21, 21-16, 21-17 in the first round. However, they face a daunting task in the next round against the winners of the match between top-seeded Chinese pair Si Wei Zheng and Ya Qiong Huang and the Indonesian duo of Rehan Naufal Kusharjanto and Lisa Ayu Kusumawati.
The Indian women's doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand will take on Chinese Taipei's Yu-Pei Cheng and Yu Hsing Sun later in the day.
In an all-Indian men's singles opening round match, former world no.1 HS Prannoy will face Priyanshu Rajawat.
(With inputs from PTI)
