Lakshya Sen reached his third consecutive semifinal this month while HS Prannoy and Satwisairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty bowed out of the Japan Open Super-750 tournament in Tokyo on Friday.
Lakshya defeated Koki Watanabe of Japan 21-15, 21-19, Prannoy lost to world No. 1 Viktor Axelsen of Denmark 21-19, 18-21, 8-21 and Satwik-Chirag went down to Olympic champions Lee Yang and Wang Chi-Lin of Chinese Taipei 15-21, 25-23, 16-21.